New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-09-08
SOME NEW SAILS TRIED.
THE SHAMROCKS PERFORMANCE YES
TERDAY DISAPPOINTING.
SHE WAS not PIT TO TEST. AND N 80
POINT OF SAILING DID SHE APPEAR
TO BE A CUP WINNER.

POINT OF SAILING DID SIZE AII'-3fN
TO BE A CUP WINNER
The challenger Shamrock took another spin
off the Jersey coast yesterday The winds were
light and the Yacht made a trial Of her sails
rather than tests Of her speed There was a
moderate roll ON the ocean from the winds Of
the previous day not enough to make the
Shamrock pitch but only TO show her general
ease Of motion.
Sir Thomas Upton sailed on board the chal
louger yesterday This was his first sail on her
i'm the tests OF the last week Fife Rasey
Conneu the Chevalier de MARITIME and several
others. filed the steam launch that came down
from the davts Of the Erin when both boats
were out near the lightship
Five ~ the sails used yesterday We're now.
These were the three headslils the balloon ib
and the club gaTtopsat The setting ~ these
canvases was perfect The size. the cut. tho
peculiar arrangement Of the cloths and the set
Of the big clubtopsan were alone worth a trip
10 the Hook % see. but speed testing per
Torrance yesterdays sailing Of the challenger
was disappointment for those who went 10
get facts. The helmsman did not put her close
tanned on the wind SO that her best weatherly
qualities could not boz ascertained. The sheets
were pretty fat aft and many novice might
have been deceived into the idea that the boat
was hv the wind but the compass on the fol-
lowing press tug told no lies. and IN her alter
nate tacks on the wind the Shamrock did not
sail within ten points all day
In the reaching The vessel looked exceedingly
we'll but this not what the newspaper men
went down 10 see When she gave every beau
tifully cut sail a good hard pull and LET herself
rin along over tho swells the spectacle was a
4, oi,a~ ~ he Yacht
II was good quiet day for stretching new
sails but pr any really valuable Information
the days performance was almost barren
Moreover. the days sail did not improve the
Shamrock's reputation. or course. she did not /
have on her racing mainsaN. bur she had every
thing else. and So far as the yacht sharps are /
concerned il may be said with certainty that /
no one was impressed by the PAGES shown.
These men were not giving out their ideas ex-
nlicitlv. hut probably there was only one opinion .
among them namely. that the craft did not
seem particularly dangerous In light weather
The Shamrock is an easy sailer. She can 90
twelve knots an hour and seem lazy over H. +
Her real speeds are sometimes hard to realize +
on this account Indeed. they sometimes cannot
he realized without the aid Of the patent log
or the known speed Of steamer. Captain Mat
thews corroborated The Tribune by saying 1
could not have believed that she was running at
more than nine knots II the log had not said
twelve" This was in reference 70 Tuesdays
tests before the wind. But yesterday there was
no extra speed shown on any Of the courses, eX-
cept perhaps on the run in for short time
while the wind freshened
THE COLUMBIA AS GOOD.
To put the case I'm the shortest possible way,
there was not line Of sailing yesterday that
could not be duplicated or hetterad by the de-
Tending yacht Columbia.
r. Is generally understood and there has
been much said by Sir Thomas Upton 70 in
dicate that Mr.. Fife is almost in full charge Of
the boat at least az to saying what she shall
or shall not do. that the failure to sail the
yacht h. the wind yesterday may safely be-
attributed to Mr. FIFE But n this plan with
held from observation the boats best windward
speed in light weather it did not conceal the
suggestion that the Columbia VIII probably heat
her in the same weather on every line OF sail
ing that was taken YESTERDAY
The day began when the tug Lawrence
brought the two captains to the Shamrock ar
0.45 o'clock and soon aftcrwari the steam
yacht Erin had the racer in tow While the two
steamed out Of sandy Hook Bay n was almost
a calm. and the canvas was being sent up while
the yacht passed out on the ocean. The jb
and foresan went up IN stops at 1910 and hy
lO.3N the mainsail was set The big cluhtop-
sail was climbing up into place few minutes
later. and AZ II O'clock all the after canvas was
set, and the forward canvas ready
An ENORMOUS BALLOON UR.
The tbtopsail was set and both iib and fore
sail We're broken ont after the toWline had been
dropped. The yacht paid of to the starhoard
at 1908 the wind being then light out ~ the
south-southeast Soon the jibtopsan was run
down. and the new balloon jb was holsted to
the truck
This was evidently immense sail, but II
was kept up short a time that it Is impossible
to say much about It. except that IL has an enor-
nous reach aft from the bowsprt end The
breeze became little more marked rs the jib- .
tcpsail replaced and then the White star
liner Germanlc passed. signalling with the en-
sign and showing code signals &c D." which
read Success" and Sir Thomas Upton ordered
up the reply on the Erin. "R j." which said
Thanks"
Tn" North German Lloyd steamer Auguste
Victoria went out past the lightship saluting
She took on her full ocean gait here and seemed
to settle I'm the water she got down to work
and passed to the horizon in a boil Of foam The
Poycarp and the big K0ngen Lulse also fol-