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VACIITIING 








Seneca Defending Canada’s Cup. 
Second Race, 
WIND tricky as ever the south shore of Lake 
Ontario furnished, graced the second race of the 
Canada’s cup series off Charlotte. The course 
to the mark was east-northeast, and the wind was 
anywhere from south to west and varied in 
strength from four to fourteen miles during the 
race. There was a snappy jobble of a sea, and 
when the yachts would strike a soft spot they 
would spill the wind completely out of their 
sails. At other times the wind would be hard 
enough to heave Seneca down to an angle of 
forty-five degrees. 
The judges, Messrs. Day, of New York; Am- 
brose, of Hamilton; Van Voorhis, of Rochester, 
and Owen, of Winthrop, the latter taking the 
place of Mr. W. P. Stephens, of Bayonne, as 
official referee on measurement, were again ac 
commodated in the steam yacht Navajo. Mr. 
Oliver Cromwell, the neutral judge, was ill in 
bed and his place was filled by Mr. Thomas 
Ileming Day. There had been so many com- 
plaints about spectators crowding the course in 
1e preceding day that extra and efficient efforts 
were put forth to keep it clear, The revenue 
utter Dallas and the steam yacht Dacotah did 
re part of the big policemen on the beat, but 
leir power of towing offenders into port and 
-anceling passenger licenses was not put into 
sxecution. More terrible to delinquents was the 
ittle mahogany speed boat of Mr. Graham’s 
iat had been pressed into service. She swooped 
down on offenders like a devouring monster, a 
curtain of spray on cither bow, a blue streak of 
smoke behind her, and nobody *persisted in tres 
passing after being warned by her. 
Seneca’s mainsail, which hung like a bag in 
the first race, set flat as a board in the hard 
breeze. It was then apparent that skipper Hanan 
had intentionally let it have plenty of flow for 
the light wind on Saturday and stretched it to 
its flattest for the hard breeze. There is a slab 
reef ‘in the sail by which the bagginess can be 
eliminated. Seneca only pulled this in—it is 
taken in by means of a lacing—near the end of 
the first half of the course, leaving as much area 
and flow to the sail as possible for the leeward 
work. 
The yachts crossel the line with the wind on 
the starboard quarter, spinnaker booms braced 
forward and spinnakers aloft in stops. Seneca 
was in the weather berth, but Adele was ahead. 
The time of the start was: 
MELE: - tacts bok 11 30 10 Seneca \...acsane anes 11 30 25 

For a minute after crossing both hauled up 
till they had the wind nearly abeam. It looked 
ike a luffng match and neither would break out 
their spinnaker. Suddenly Seneca’s crew made 
he move and Adele immediately followed suit. 
he Canadian spinnaker was slower breaking 
out, being apparently held by the stops in the 
velly of the sail, but the delay was only a matter 
of seconds. 
Hanan sailed an easy race. He made no at- 
tempt at bearing down on Jarvis and blanketing 
um, but held serenely aloof, going far to wind- 
ward, while’ Adele squared away dead before 
it. While the wind remained hard—it was then 
blowing about eleven knots—Seneca’s spinnaker 
pulled beautifully and gave no trouble. Adele’s 
would lift till the boom was almost cockbilled 
and a man had to jockey it. 
After twenty minutes’ good sailing, with Senect 
drawing away from Adele—but whether nearer 
the mark or not was another question—the 
yachts struck a soft spot. Adele rolled all the 
wind out of her spinnaker, but contrived to keep 
her mainsail full. Seneca spilled everything. 
The wind bit in again and both filled away on 
even terms. Then it left them and another roll- 






SENECA, 
Successful defender of the Canada’s cup in 1907. 
Photo by R. B. Price. 


