The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-06-30

area 1000 square feet, which multiple
ed together and divided by 5000 yields
! her rating Observation-Disclosures The
! proportion of length and sail area may
be varied at will in any class by the
designer so long as the application Of
! the rule does not carry his boat above
the rating limit. In the half rating
| class for instance a water line length
OF IL feet and a sail area of 1866
square feet would give half rating, or
water line length of 10 feet and
sail area of 200 square feet would
Yield the same measurement. But in
actual practice the variations are
fixed in comparatively small limits
Roughly speaking a forty-rater aver
ages about 60 feet on the water line a
twenty-rater, 46 feet; a ten rater, 81:
five rater 80; a two and a half rater
70 feet; one-rater 10 and a half rater
Is feet
Good Racing in All Classes in Eng
land.
In all of these classes, besides that
represented by the Britannia, there is
keen competition and lots of racing in
England. That is something calculat-
ed to fill an American yachtsman with
envy when he recalls the fact that in
these waters last season the only
really live racing was that afforded by
the little twenty-one footers, in all
other classes the entries being con-
fined to boats more than one season
old, whose relative merits had been
thoroughly tested and the results Of
contest between whom were fOregOne
conclusions. The seventy foot class,
| the forty-siX foot class and the forty
! foot class, which have afforded such
! keen sport at the various regattas of
! the leading yacht clubs in the vicinity
of New York, have fallen into a con-
dlt1on of lnnOcuOuS deSeutude. For
| two seasons Yachts have hppn
built in any of them. Most of the
| yachts that once struggled for SUI
premacy among them have dropped
! out of the racing lists Among the
| seventy-footers the Katrina is with
| out competitor. In the fOrty-SiX foot
class the Gloriana and the Wasp, both
Herreshoff boats. still continue to race
| occasionally with the invaria BILE re-
suit that the Wasp wins. No new
boats have been added to the forty
! footers since Burgess died. The Min
erva and the GOSsoon are the only two
! boats in the class that enter the re-
gattas, but their meetings are devoid
of interest because everybody knows
that the Gossoon is a little faster than
the Minerva.
There is no prospect of a revival of
activity in any of these classes this
season. Howard Gould has had
twenty-rater built for himself by
| Herreshoff. He has christened her
the Niagara, and has taken her to
England to race. Ill-natured people
may say that he has done this be-
cause he wants to hobnob with the
English nobility, several of whom are
owners Of twenty-raters. That is
probably untrue. A man doesn't go
in for yacht racing, especially with
such racing machines as Herreshoff
turns out, except for love of the sport.
But it is true, and pity tbs it's true,
that to find competitors for his boat
and lots of racing, Howard Gould has
got to take her to England.
HerreshOffs influence in England
1t is a singular fact that thus far
Herreshoff has exercised a more slim
ulating influence over yacht racing in
England than he has here Here his
supremacy has been so pronounced,
that he has scared off competition.
Here he builds a boat for a certain
class, and she proves so far superior
to all others in it. that they drop out,
and next season she is without a COM
petitor. Here it has only been we'll
said Herreshoff has only been beaten
by himself. But in England, in some
notable instances, they have bettered
his instruction. They have turned out
racing machines that beat his racing
machines.
1t is a singular fact, too, and one that
may be significant that it is to Eng
lish yachtwomen that Herreshoff owes
his first opportunities to teach British
ers a thing or two about racing yachts
that they didn't know before. In 1892
Miss Winifred Sutton "a sister of the
gallant Sir Richard Sutton, who tried
to capture the Americas cup with the
Geneta, and took his licking in such
a graceful and sportsmanlike manner,
that he captivated everybody i'm
ported the little bulb fin-keel half-rater
appropriately named Wee Winn. Win
she did in an astonishing fashion and
for two seasons was cock of the walk
in her class. Next season Miss Maud
Sutton introduced another Herreshoff
built boat, a trifie larger, the one
rater Morwena, and enjoyed the deli
cious sensation of beating all the men
who raced against her in British
built boats of the same class. Mrs
Hardie Jackson had the same expert
ence with Herreshoff's two-and-a-half
rater Meneen. British yachtswomen
don't play at yacht racing. They take
whatever weather comes, neither ask
nor receive any odds from the men,
and steer their own boats. But while
British designers were suffering de-
feat, they were learning a thing or
two. How much was shown last sea-
son. The Pique. a Payne half-rater
scored more wins than the Wee Vim;
the Scud, in the one-rater class, de-
signed by Bourgoyne. went ahead of
the Morwena:, and the two-and-a-half
rater Gareth- designed by Nicholson,
wrested the honor of being top of her
class from the Meneen.
The Fin Keel rs Against the Centre
Board.
William Willard Howard, formerly
commodore of the New York Canoe
club, who raced his canoe. Yankee, in
England last season, said in recent
article:
"As the designers of the two coun-
tries had an even start on the new
type, it was matter of curiosity to
see which would evolve the fastest
form of hull for a given rating 1t
can now be said without prejudice,
that England has been most success
full in this respect, and that the best
of the British one-raters and half
raters have greater intrinsic merit of
form than the best of the American
boats of the same FORM