The times., 1899-10-31
THE SHAMROCK SAILS TODAY.
Challenger to Leave New York for
Her Home Port.

Challenger to Leave New York for
Her Home Port.
NEW YORK, Oct. 3O.-The Shamrock
sails tomorrow. With Captains Hogarth
and Wringe in command, Captain Rowe as
first officer, Captain Hamilton as naviga-
tor, two cooks, two stewards, and crew
of thirty five the defeated cup challenger
will leave Erie Basin about s o'clock in the
morning, bound for the Clyde. The changes
necessary to prepare the green -hulled
yacht for her return voyage have made her
look like another boat, and from swift
winged racing sioop she has now become a
stancb seagOing yawl.
The tall steel mainmast has been re-
placed by a short, thick one of pine, and
a stubby mizzenmast has been stepped aft.
The Shamrock will carry a large main try
sail, with a bonnet; mtzzen trysail, a fore
staysail, also with a bonnet; a square sail,
and raffer. The raffer, which is a small
triangular sail, fitted just over the square
sail Will not be used unless an emergency
should arise. On the yachts port davits
will hang her cutter. while lashed TO
spar which has been shipped between the
two masts wifi be two collapsible can
vas boats to be used in case of accident.
This pine spar, which is held at its forward
end by the mainboom gooseneck and aft by
an iron crutch, clamping the mizzeHmast,
has been put in to brace the two masts
and add stanchness to the deck. The
mainboom will not be used.
Down below the yacht has been divided
into four compartments The iron partition
away aft. which was removed during the
races. has been again riveted in place, thus
making the of tfG ei
tight bulkhead. There Is second partI-
tion about ten feet forward OF the iron one
making another compartment, which viii
be used as storeroom. Forward of the
storeroom and extending to about amid
ships is third section, which will be used
by Captain Hogarth and the other officers
The fourth section is for the galley, cabin
and sleeping quarters Of the crew
To carry forty-three men below the
decks of a craft of the Shamrock's size,
and TO leave room in which to cook and
eat in comfort, is no easy matter, and
space has been utilized almost as though
the yacht were an explorers ship starting
on a long Arctic voyage. Along the sides,
just under the deck and behind the stanch-
ions. the swinging hunks Of the crew are
tucked in like shelves in a cupboard. Wood
and coal are slowed away in small covered
bins, which are built along the line of
the deck stanchions. Just aft of the main
mast is the galley stove and on either side
Of ii the cupboards for dishes. The men
Of the crew were busy today shifting their
kits and the officers instruments and
effects from the Shamrocks tender, the
steamboat Plymouth to the places ar
ranged under the yachts own deck.
The voyage over took fourteen days and
twenty hours. and out of the distance trav-
eled about tWo-thirds was sailed and the
rest made in tow. There was much specu-
lation today as to the probable duration
of the return trip.
Everything will depend. said Captain
Rowe this morning, ION the weather. II
we get good sailing weather going back,
we shall sail the Shamrock, and if we
don't the Erin viii have to tow her. Of
course. we shall sail her all we can. 1t
isn't likely, however, that we shall get as
good bit of weather so late in the year
as we did coming over, and 1 dare say it
will take longer to go back"