Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-09-22
LORD pUNRAvEN.
(. OLIVER lSELIS.

A third yacht was named Jubilee in order to catch whatever magic might come with the Columbian Quadricentennial year, but this mascot also proved powerlcss. The fourth yachts name began with the potent V, and in the trial races between the quartet of would be cup defenders the swift Nigilant outSailcd her rivals and was selected 10 meet the challenger. Thus far it will be seen the letter V is very much in evidence, but what the result will be when the two Ns clash-when the Irish Nalkyri and the Yankee Nigilant meet in a struggle for the cup-is not at all clear just now.
 The Nigilant is owned by syndicate of rich New York yacLtsmcn, the principal members of which are Commodore F.. D. Morgan of the New York Yacht club and C. Oliver Iselin, two of the best yacEtsmen in America. Iselin is conducting the af- fairs of the yacht for the syndicate, the re maining members of which are August and Perry Belmont, Chester w. Chapin, Adrian Iselin, James M. Waterbury, Oliver II. P. Belmont, Charles R. Flint, George C. Clark and Harry Astor Carey.
 The Nigilant was largely an experiment, but thus far she has proved happy one. In at least two respects she is unique in the history of yacht building. Her sail plan is the largest ever attempted in a yacht of her size, and she is sheathed with costly Tobin bronze, as no other yacht has been. The bronze is much superior to steel, for it is light, unusually smooth and hard to foul
 On the loadwater line the NiCilant k S6. l2 feet long. Her length over all k l2S feet
 beam 26 feet, draft IL feet. In type she is a powerful centerboard sloop and truly rep resentS the Yankee idea as to what a worlds champion yacht should be. Her boom is PS feet long, and there are a tons of ballast on her keel to enable her tu stand up under her immense spread of canvas
 The Nigilant has thus far cost over S1jO - OOO and in all probability her owners will part with SlOOOOo in all before the Ameri- cas- cup races arc over. The cupiS not at all pretty and only cost about $500, but since | 1851 in the neghborhood of Sl 800 OOO has | been expended by yaChtsmen who have
 either come after the trophy or built yachts to defend it.
 The Vigilant is handled by Captain Will liam Hansen and a large crew of expert
 enced sailors. Hansen was born in Bergen, | Norway, 46 years ago, and for l3 years he
 has been sailing crack yachts on this side | of the Atlantic.
 He fished with his father while a mere | boy and commenced going to sea when l7 | years old. Hansen began yachting in Au- l gust, 1870. in the schooner Alice. The fol- ! lowing summer he was in the schooner ! Josephine and in 1872 in the schooners ! Nesta and Sylvia
 1 From the time the Sachem was launched | Hansen was her master for three seasons.
 She was built for racer, and among her | victories are two Goelet cups, won in 1887 | and lSSS In lSS9 Hansen became master
 of the Burgess yacht Quickstep, one of the | fastest schooners in New York waters | The challenging yacht Walk yrie is owned 1 by Lord Dunraven, who has shown n patri- 1 otic desire to win back the Americas cup | for several years past. His yacht has thus | far shown herself at least the equal if not
 the superior of any yacht in English wa
 ters. She has been beaten by the Prince of | Wales Britannia, but she has also defeated
 that famous flyer in turn, and honors are
 about equal between them.
 1 The Nalkyrie is commanded by Captain
 William Cranfield, an old and experienced
 skipper. He has been in Lord Dunraveu's