The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-05-11
THE NEW THIRTY-FOOTERS.
THIRTEEN BOd7S TO I IN
JHE LATEST FIGHTING CLASS.
All 20 Have Fin ReeIs-Description OF the
Herreshon Yncbts-Tho New Gnrdner
Bont Said to Be n Novel Crnft-Iittie
Known About tho Wintringhnm Boat.

While there will be no international yacht
race this season outside of the half-raters ana
the Chlcago.Toronto contests. there should be
plenty Of sport. particularly in the new special
3O-foot class, In which no less than thirteen
boats will be represented. Out of the lot eleven
are designed by MAI Herreshoff of Bristol. The
remaining two will be from designs by Ii. c.
Wintringham and William Gardner, and II the
hopes of their owners are realized they should
find little trouble in disposing of the Bristol
boats. The majority of yachtsmeu, however,
think that the Herreshoff boats, in spite OF be-
ing from one mould and design, will have
things pretty much their OVID way.
The rules for the new class, which owes its
inception to the efforts of Herman B. Duryea
and w. Butler Duncan. Jr.. who were largely
responsible for the success Of the 2l-foot class
two years ago, were originally published In THE
Sun on Nov. 10 last. They call for a boat be-
tween twenty-nine and thirty feet on the water
line and the sail plan is restricted to between
$50 and 1000 square feet of canvas. Their
length over all cannot exceed forty-threc feet.
and the cockpit and cabin house must not be
over fourteen or less than thirteen feet. The
crew Is limited to four, of which three can be
paid hands. and all ballast must be permanent
and outside OF the hull. Metallic or weighted
centreboards are barred and the draught cannot
exceed : feet . inches. Owing to the conditions
governing tnlSC las Oil VI Il poato WIN w hh
keels.
AS originally announced in THE Sun, eight
boats were ordered from the IIerreshotfs by the
following well-known yachtsmen: Herman b..
Duryea, Gouverneur Kortright, L. ID. Morgan.
II. y. Whitney. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Jr.. Bay
ard Thayer. Ralph n. Ellis. and W.'O. b. Nc
Donough. Since then James Stillman and two
others have ordered boats from the Herreshofs.
while J. Rogers Maxwell Of Emerald fame had
II. G. Nottingham design him a boat, which
is now in course of construction at the st. Law
renee Skiff and Canoe Company's yard in og-
densburg. n. y. and William Gardner has de-
signed u boat for y. BaruTm Seeley, which Is
now being built by Hunt at bridgeport. Conn,
lot, while the Gardner and wintEingham boat.
will go to their original owners. The Herreshotf
inches over all and 20 feet 10 inches on tho wa,
ter line. They are double planked, with layers
Of cotton cloth between each skin saturated
with a preparation of tar and varnish. The in
side ,lanking, as we'll as the outside, is three
eighths of an INCH in thickness, and copper
planks. The keel. frames, wales. stem, and stern
pieces are of oak. while the outside ~planking Is
line and painted green below. The length OF
the cabin ana cockpit combined is "a feet, and
inches, occupying nearly the entire width Of 1.-THE
boat. There is also tive feet of head room in the
cabin.
The fins are almost perfectly square in shape.
slightly different in form from those in use in
the Niagara and Isolde. and are . feet 9 inches
in depth from the hull to the leaden bulb and >
feet from the forward to the after end. The
frames are spaced l0Ih inches on the centres,
and, according to a boston Authority. the nm IS
leaden bulb has u partly rounded body, and is
SHARP .d ioFSw ward Snd aiI' , ssxts fn a foot and Il
The bulb. which was mon.ded to the fin when
run, weighs about two and u half tons, and is
fastened with n double row of Tobln bronze bolts.
The fin is fastened to the hull in the usual way
with bronze angie brace and double rows Of
timbers. and keelson. The sterns of the boats
are, nearly ellipttcnl, or n pretty model, and
The boats will be sloop-rigged, with a stumpy
pole mast thirty-six feet in length from the
deck acc &, +, r nc t Go"m + i is 3a feet in Ie . inches so long Z and
boats will be fitted with two suits of sails, CON
sisting Of one each Of lateral and perpendicular
seams. The bowsprit is fiat. short, and stumpy,
and steel wire rigging set up with turnbucklcs
will be used for shrouds; Very little is known
beyond the fact that she is of slightly heavier
construction than the Herreshotf boats. Tho
STREAM says:
a craft that promises to be a surprise in tho new 30,
Bridreport. Conn While The dozen other yachts %
Fame fhs S51 sod "T' ,h nS latest s"%,' one on ' Is n SIiHSsp more nor rpH laSs
than a FIN keel sharpiic; I''S yacht wi'I nav" only,
inches by 3 inches ,amidshirs, aud running IN a fair
Al the angie between bottom and Side an oak chine
Is worked, ab9n, three inches by nve inches amid.
moor timbers and upper timIcrs aro loSEed into tho
strain Of tho lin. The bottom plauking viii be single,
attlnk in Getwsen keel AMI chine; the fopsides wiifGc
double skinned.
The nm will be of Il inch steel plate, ana tho lead
bulb will weigh $500 pounds, The nn is 3 feet deep
below keel. the hull drawing about = feet, ami Is
about 3 feet long fore and art. tho edges being VERT.
cal, Tho bulb overhangs tue I'm about i foot at each
end. The lin T. secured to the Keel by steel angles,
ami provision is made for ShiftinS tho FIN forward or
aft after trial to correct any faults OF balance before
II IL finally fastened with itinch rivsts. lhu ruIder
is Rppro SImatcly square in form "A steel forging with
steel Plate blade. The yacht will have "a snug cabin
under a low trunk, with u weIlcrOwned roof.