New-York tribune., 1885-09-16

in my Judgment is because she hasn't enough
headsai In fact her sails don't set right at ali
They we're hurried that there was time to get
everything just right She wasn't long enough ont
of water to get her bottom in racing condition. aud
not in the water time enough to get her sails to trim
as they ought to-"
| Edward A. Willard, who sailed the Priscilla in
her trial races. was at his Wal-st office. He
is so anticutter" in his that he might almost
| be accused of leaning toward the skmming dish
| heresy. There is just one point in favor of the
English type in this question Of cutter versus
sloop," said he argumentatively, and that is the
outside lead for ballast. AS far as the model goes,
cutter Is simply an attempt to beat q system of
measurement. You build boat which is ninety
feet long and fifteen feet BEAM She develops a
certain amount of speed and wins races. build
another ninety feet long, with the same spars and
spread of canvass Bat make her only fourteen
feet ten inches beam IN order to get time allow
anco from you. To make mp tor this loss of beam
have to deepen her little and put five tons of
lead on her keel to make her stand up under her
spaIs. We keep cutting under one another in tins
reached AS so | think if the Priscilla had outside
ballast, shoe put under her with leaden rocker,
she would sail better'
Isn't this twenty miles to the wndward course
rather an unusual I" asked the reporter. There
have been races twenty miles to the ard from
sandy HOOK but that IS qnte different thing from
aOh, no. There have been several in years past.
The Fortuna, If | remember rightly, once made 1t
in hours and minutes. Then the Purltan s
record is hours 5S minutes and 10 seconds so
that the seyen-hour limit is not too much for a
spritcd race"
Those who saw the race of Monday were never
tired Of expatiatng on its beauties to their less
fortunate or less interested neghbors who stayed at
home They rang the changes of admiration GU the
wonderful sailing qualities OF the Puritan, and the
wonderful long-Eeadenness of her skipper. Every
time the Englshman wandered fron the course
llpI hp lp lpSf n "A
happy descendant of the Pilgrim fathers.
The reason why the sIo0p drew away from her
pursuer WAS because she stood up to the wind re-
marked another with an air that rendered CONTRA
GictioD impossible. &" | don't know much about
sailing boats but common sense teaches me that one
which will stand mp straight and present the great
est effective area to breeze is gong 10 realize more
propelpg power from II than boat that leans bali
way over as the Genesta did. every time the wind
freshens 1t does seem as though u vessel ought 10
go tbrmgh the water more easily on an ever keel
than WHEEL tipped mp on one side. If not why don't
they build ein to sail on edge IN The first place y
This Siincner was tlo iuuch for the particular
circle Of ndntcally men at which II was trcd.
and there vas no one T. galnsay the argn'nrht.
Ii tho races for the Americas cup arc decided
some time before tho Lower Bay ircczcS over the
races for the challenge cure offered by Comlnodores
Bennett aud douglas will sake place, The New
York Yacht Club course followed IS the yachts on
NJ nday IS used foy these races The books of the
club are open Tor eutrieS bat they are not all III as
yet Those that are already eDt"Iel are Charles
Colpsschoonor VA ;h, Dauntless Archibald kogers's
well-koOwn cutter BedOun. the schooner Crawling
hconsng to l.. A. Fish. the cutter Jcncsta, Arthur
Padelbrd's cnttcr len. COiLmodor' HGveys
schooner yacht Fortuna. the fast tie sloop Oracle
owned by J. h. taIie. DIR. Barron slOOp Atlllon
and the English built cutter Stranger.
The .)anuileSs AID GeLesta have already been
entered for the Brcnton's Reef races which sIc 10
occur at li:tle later date, and the,e two with
the slcop Athlon are also down Tor the ace for nc
Capo May Challenge cup e was reporied that the
Priscilla was entered nT the races for tho ComnO-
dores' cups but her name is nDt o. tic books. 1t
may yet DC added, sow"vrr.