New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-06-29
YACHTING.
YOUNG DESIGNERS COMING TO THE
FRONT.
MiNY OWNERS ARE GIVING THEIR ORDERS TO
NEW MEN. SOME OF WHOM HAVE


THEIR HANDS FULL.
Lawlev IS not turning out any hrst-class 2l-foot
raceabout this year to represent him in the most
sought for competitions. and will consequently be
handicapped as far as opportunity goes. Two
raceabouts have been built a. Brstol-one for ".
p. Fowe and the other FOR w. o. Cay Mr.
Purdon the designer. Is turning out two kees for
Thomas II. webb and Frank Brewer. and also
ccnt,eboard with hollow lines spoon bow for
g. r Adams Young C-ownnshield. who topped
the class last year with the Mongoose. his first and
only chance in the class. will have improved
Morgoose cut this season. together with the Dahla
and others and this means that with her designer
az n, stick she will make II lively for all corners.
IL Is noted that in Eastern waters and In the
neighbolhood Of New-York owners are experiment.
I'M, wiki different designers and not giving all
thoir orders 10 one man. The wins OF the Mongoose
and tho Costing the Fly. the Hazard. the Sally
III ana the cock Robin have justified this, Nearer
home. number Of young designers have had their
hands full-tO say nothing OF clinton crane, VINO
has dstauced the professional builders for two
of i1o Morgooso four Herreshof boats-a one
tN-i"ur rndhce-aSslsts tAe SUGGESTION 'hat III ne
developing last and only need announcement and
In regard to the foregoing. one inference forces
itself upon the attention. namely. that all the
work are praotical sailors and nc ,us,omcd to han
de smart craft IN smart company. That which
be- a proved fact. that the boats which are designed
at home are not quite good enough. The boats
races when he helmsman fees what IS wanted 70
small classes. from thirty feet downwari the
sisuer who wins is the one who feels what his
boats tell hin-not he who only thinks what his
boats want and docs his work home
For TWO years Deggan has ds'anced the entire
amateur. clinton H. crane who distanced all
American professionals ior two years Both these
"n. n9as nave TO say 10 I'm raG G"'' fop tbey
hand lars offh ,ae Graf .
OF them knows that supremacy in this region must
be felt out well as thought out
THE CRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM
The steam yacht Eugenia suffered from slight
collision while at the college rowing races at New.
London. She has gone to the tierreshof yards. at
Z j. Morgan's thirty-foo,er Puck launched
Yesterday and will be sent 10 Newport 20 join in
the seasons racing there
The schooner Emerald will be put in trim for
racing as soon ~ there is chance for sport in her
class. j. Rogers Maxwell has her at Hampstead
Iiaroor
a twenty-one-foot knockahout IS being built AZ
The IIsrreshofY Yards AT Bristol for Frank Her
reshon who lives in New-York The planking Is
about completed. and the fin and lead bulb are
ready. Another craft, which IS almost a counter
part OF the Typhoon, VII he laGA,mg g III IL NV Nv
races on the Sound.
The schooner Yacht Vigil. which was launched
al Tottcnvlle last Friday IS seventy-eigh feet long
over all and forty-three feet long the water
lir. Her beam is fifteen feet She has been con-
structed 20 cruise IN southern waters, and for ms
reason draws only four feet She is owned by Al
fred II. Chandler OF Philadelphia
The SO-footer Hera owned by Ralph y. Ellis. the
master OF the Meadow Brook Hunt Club. was
hauled out AZ Walkers Cove. Bristol Monday.
She will be scrapcd. reprinted and vanished to
prepsre for her seasons racing. The 3-footer
Wawa having been sold. her skipper, Captain
Wilkie WILL be I'm charge OF the Hera though in al
his races Ralph y. Ellis is his own skipper
Tomorrow evening the Hampstead Bay Yacht Club
will give a moonlight sail and evening reception
at the clubhouse The steamers Eagle and Nettie
Belle have been chartered The reception will be
given under the direction OF the House Committee.
composed OF John II. Carl Floyd Weekes and +. 7.
Southland.
The regatta OF the Seawa nhaka Cornthlan Yacht
Club. which was scheduled for to-day has been
postponed on account of the death OF Colonel 8 V.
Il Crugcr. The date for the Seawanhaka
races viii be announced
Herman r. Dnryea. Woodbury. Kane and Ralph
n. Ellis. the Regatta COMMITTEES OF the Newport
Yacht Racing Association Will not have any racing
OF large yachts at Newport this year Woodbury.
Kane who nearly always sailed with Mr. Ellis on
the Hera, is in the thick OF IL In Cuba and it Is
thought that the New-York Yacht Club will not
cruise 10 Newport 10 make things lively