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

pair of heels to the fin-keels. 1t is
generally conceded that his one-rater
Sorceress, was the most successful
boat in her class last year. With a
water line length of 1873 feet, she has
beam of feet, and depends upon
mat entirely for stability. Her
draught is only inches. She has a
dagger centre board Z feet deep, which
twists her bodily to windward, and she
sails almost bolt upright. Her record
at the top OF her class in Great Brit
am, in 1894" says William Willard
Howard again, leaves no room to
deny that she is an actual improve
ment over all other types of small
yachts"
Mere Sailing Machines
In the ten-rater class no boat stood
the ghost of a chance against Her
reshofTs Dakotah. She is merely a
big canoe, with a bulb fin keel Her
internal accommodations are of the
scantiest description. That she rep
resents a very undesirable type of
yacht from the point of view of the
man who seeks seawOrthiness and
cabin accommodation sufficient to live
in, there can be no doubt Equally
certain 1t is that considering alone her
capacity for speed, she represents the
nearest approach to perfection yet at
tanned in a boat of her length and
sail area. That is what Herreshoff
built her for. He has fulfilled his con-
tract. it is none of his business to
impose limitations on his own genius
If yacht clubs should unite in legislat-
ing against sailing machines for the
purpose of encouraging sailing yachts,
no doubt he would be very glad of
it. He would probably get many more
orders for yachts than he does for
machines. He is, so to speak, killing
the goose that lays the golden eggs.
But he can't help himself.
The Varied Equipment of English
Yachtsmen.
One reason why yacht racing
f1ourishes in England to a much great
er extent than it does here is that
many EngliShmen who can afford it
keep more than one yacht. The de-
Velopment of yachting has resulted in
its division into two claSses-the cruis-
ing yacht and the racing yacht. The
former stands for comfort and solid
enjoyment, the latter for sport and ex-
element. The we'll to do American
finding after one or two seasons eX-
perience that he can't combine both
qualities in one craft generally drops
out of the racing lists and contents
himself with a cruising yacht. The
maintain a cruising yacht and a racing
yacht, too; often, indeed more than
one of the latter And when newer
boats leave his racers too far astern,
he sells them and builds others and
thus keeps UP with the procession.
When Lord Dunraven's Valkyrie was
sent to the bottom last year by the
Satanita he had the sixty-rater crus-
ing cutter L'Esperence and the twenty
rater Audrey, one of his own design
by the way, to fall back on. In adj
dition to the Britannia the Prince of
Wales still owns the fine schooner
Aline. Lord Brassey, whose fine aux
Harry steam yacht Sunbeam had sailed
all over the world raced in a twenty
racer last season. J. Arthur Brand
who is to bring a half rater over here
in the fall to race for an international
trophy has ten cutter which lows
his little flyer from port to port for the
different regattas in which she enters.
The owner of the crack one rater Fay
takes his ease on the schooner yacht
Sea Bell which ds big enough to swing
the fay from her davitS. Thus trans
ported from port to port as the regat-
taS fell due the Fay took part in more
than sixty races last year. winning
forty prizes. These are only a few of
many similar instances that might be
mentioned.