New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-04-22
NO CUP RACE THIS YEAR.
AMERICA TO KEEP HER TROPHY LONGER
TALK OF CANADIAN COMPETITOR - GOSSIP
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| AMCNG THE fACHIbMfNs
There is no possibility Of any race for the Amer
| 1ca's Cup this year, but there may be a contest
for it next year, and meanwhile yachtsmen must
possess their souls in patience. st. John, New
brunswick, has designer and shipbuilder, David
| Lynch, who is ambitious Of capturing the trophy
for the Canadians. He was here last fall, visited
the New-York Yacht Club and inspected some Of
| the models Some hint of what he up to got
into the papers, but it not generally believed
that he really meant business. But now he is
heard from again on his native heath He has
produced model and is casting around for syn
dictate that will supply cash enough to build the
yacht
But cash is one thing and patriotism is another.
The Canadians would much like to have the credit
Of winning the famous cup. But they have already
made two attempts, first with the schooner Count
ess of Duferin and the second time with the sloop
Atlanta, and each time got only the experience that
makes men sadder and WISER for their pains. How
ever, the prize is tempting one. The cash may
be supplied and the yacht built 1t is understood
that she is to be called the Bluenose." The sug.
gestion of color is appropriate. II a race does
plenty of it, will suffice to symbolic the feelings
plenty of it, will suffice to symbolic the feeling
of those who have invested in her.
POINTS ABOUT THE BLUENoSE
She is to be q centreboard boat That Is cred
liable to the sagacty of the Canadians, but race
with o centreboard boat would lack some Of the
interest that would be felt in against cut
ter 1t would not be contest between types. The
proposed dimensions of the new asprant for inter-
national honors are as follows: Length over al,
OF feet; the water line, SO feet; beam, % feet
A inches draft, 10 feet, inches. Her displace-
ment will be 100 TONS her section being much
more cut away below than that of the Volunteer,
which displaces 80 tons.
1t will not be necessary to build q new yacht to
meet her. The Volunteer or the Mayfower GER
tainly, and propably even the Puritan is quite
capable Of defending the cup effectively against
her. Mr. Lynch has never done anything at yacht
designing to lead one to suppose that he could give
points to Burgess.
THE LATEST YARN ABOUT BURGESS
But to anticipate any suggestions that he may
have got some points from Burgess, there has
been set afoat O story to the effect that Burgess
got his midship section from St John pilot
boat, thirty years DID, and got it surreptitiously
too. If these yarns about Burgess are to be be-
lieved the greater part Of his life has been spent
in rummaging among old models and hunting up
old hul1s that nobody ever heard Of before.
John Harvey the old English yacht designer,
who lives in this city and whose faith in the
cutter will survive any number Of Americas Cup
some Of the St John yachtsmcn concerning
the design of nincty-foot cutter Of the narrow
type, which he had on hand, but nothing came Of
it, Perhaps the Canadians have not as much
faith in that sort of cutter as Mr.. Harvey has.
However. Mr.. Harvey Las the credit Of designing
the best all-round" cutter of her size that ever
sailed in these waters, the Bedouin.
MORE FREEDOM ALLOWED NOW ABROAD.
1t is creditabe to the Scotchmen Of the Royal
Clyde Yacht Club that far as their own races
are concerned they are willing to remove the
ridiculous prohibition against the centreboard
which elsewhere prevails on the other side. De-
signers Watson and Fife both favored such a
course 1t is to their interest to have the re-
striction removed. Where there is greatest free
dom there is most progress, in yacht building as
in everything else. Watson would certainly like
nothing better than chance to show what he can
do at designing big centreboard sloop-or cutter,
he would call it. match between such a
boat and one by Burgess would be extremely
interesting. The result would be by no means
q foregone conclusion. A. Cary Smith, who has
candor well good judgment, and knows how
to appreciate a rival says that Watsons models
have more symmetry and beauty than those of
any other designer, and that he is the greatest
artist in the business. Some Of his friends over
here ought to give him q chance to show what
he can do with centreboard One thing is GER |
tain. His boat would be his own conception. |
That is evident from his model of a seventy-foot |
centrebOard CUTTER which hangs in Mr.. Smiths |
office. Nobody can say that It is copied from |
Burgess or any other designer. II is WatSonlan' |
all over, and more beautifully finished model |
has never been seen here.
BURGESS FOUR NEW YACHTS.
1t is greatly to be hoped that during the coming
season there will be an exhaustive test Of tho
relative sailing qualities of the four 80 1-2 feet
hill of 81
treboards and two of them keels-and all of them
of the same sail power 1t is generally conceded
that with slooDs of the size of the Volunteer the
centreboard confers an undoubted advantage. But
it must still be regarded as unsettled question
whether that advantage holds good with smaller
boats. The performances Of Burgess cutter, the
PapoOse, started quite boom" among the smaller
cutters and it is significant fact that Burgess is
at present building more small cutters than CEN
treboard sloops. But then the Papoose never had
to race against Burgess sloop. Probably nothing
that the coming season has 10 offer would be more
and valuable to yachtsmen who are
seeking facts for their guidance than thorough
trial between these four boats.
With artificial restrictions removed there doesn't
seem to be much difference Of opinion between
designers here and in England concerning what
constitute the best proportions for yacht There
has Just been launched on the other side for James
Fraser cutter 40 feet on the water line, with 0
Of the "knife-board on edge about that. Her
depth is feet inches. At Fay's yard, at South
ampton there are building two cutters 90 feet on
the water line, with feet beam. Still less does
this suggest that valuable adjunct of the kitchen
Few people have any adequate conception Of
how much sails weigh. Lovers of the fgurative
so often write about clouds Of canvas that the
idea gets abroad that sails are light as feathers.
How erroneous this notion is may be gathered from
the following table of the weights Of the sails Of
70-foot sloop as given In q lecture which sail
maker Gilbert A. Wilson recently delivered before
the Seawanhaka Corinthan Yacht Club:
Nainsail $50 Clu6Dto }Ps 1S2
no. lib. . 804 Working t0psai . 1874
30. iib 2ol Balloon jbtOpsail t. es9
storm lib 1e6 spinnaker 2oo
Total . Fl. 2GS7
The fishermen are getting Weakened up to the fact
hat though designed for business" fishing boat
nav still be fyer' At Boston d. j. Lawler
mas designed fishing schooner 92 l-2 feet on the
water line which he expects will beat the Phillips
that recently carried of the honors for Burgess
IN the race of the fishing schooners off Boston.
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