The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1899-06-15
Yachts and Boats.

The Bucksport yacht Annie E. Spencer
has gone into commission.
The June Rudder includes in its list of
Rudder Stations the station at Belfast.
Joseph Crane of Camden has bought
Ezra Bramhall's steam launch Whip-o'- will
George O. Hatch has launched his sloop
Nautilus, which had been hauled up for the
winter at Little River, and she is at her
moorings off Murphy's Point.
The new cup defender Columbia has been,
successfully launched and we give for what
it is worth the Boston Glob description of
the craft:
The schooner-yacht, Tempest owned by F.
?. Wood of Bangor, which has been hauled
up at Parker's yard during the winter has
been hauled out on Fogg's marine railway.
She will be calked, scraped and painted
and put in shape to go into commission.
Bucksport Herald.
1t is said the American cup challenger
Shamrock will not be launched until the be-
ginning of July, the progress of work on
her being retarded by the fact that her
designer, W. Fife, Jr., is suffering from
influenza. According to estimate, the con-
test, from first to last, will cost Sir Thomas
Upton about 100000.
In model she is an improved Defender,
with more beam, draft and sail. Her keel
is also thinner between the lead keel and the
hull of the boat than Defenders, and while
she has good dead rise to her floor it is not
quite so sharp as in Defender. At the same
time the bilge is filled out shade more, al
though having very easy turn. The top
oiI otro icrht how, ho J.; i
show small ''tumble home, or inward fall
amidships, but they flare outward in very
marked way on the counter. The turn from
the floor to the keel is sharper than in De-
fender, probably as sharp as nickel steel
frame. could be bent and keep its strength.
All the points of difference between Co.
lumbia and Defender emphasize the fact
that the new boat is more ON the fiji keel
type than the old, and has thinner fin,
lower lead and wider and shallo wer body
The sloop yacht Viking Qate Effie), now
the property of W. Fl. Folwell, was out Sun
day on a trial trip, and the Decrow yacht
Glide, which was underway first, filled away
after the bigger boat when abreast the monu-
ment Both boats were under their three
lower sails, with sheets off A strong
northwest wind was blowing, accompanied
interest in the sailing of these two yachts,
and the general opinion seemed to be tina t
while the Effie would out-run the Glide the
later would excel in windward work, and
that in a fair race she wolld win, boat against
boat, without the time allowance that is her
due. So far as could be judged from point
on the shore near the battery, there was lit
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two boats as they passed down, and they
were soon lost to sight beyond Northport
Camp Ground In the afternoon the Glide
passed up alone and an hour or two later the
Effie hove in sight, beating up the bay. The
Glide ran down to meet her, falling in to
windward when near the can buoy off the
monument, both yachts being on the port
tack. The Effie-it is more convenient to
call her by the old name = showed great
speed on this tack, footed fast and pointed
well, and in going about was we'll to wind
ward of the Glide. On the tarboard tack
however, she seemed to 60 off bodily to lee
ward, while the Glide pointed we'll up the
harbor and soon left her rival astern. Re-
ports of other observers vary and in some
cases were no doubt colored by prejudice
The run was to Mr.. Folwell's island home,
Isola Bella, and while some say the Efie
had long lead at that point, others say
there was less than two minutes difference
in the time of the two yachts They did not
start together on the return, and in the scrap
in the upper bay it is admitted by every
body that the Glide had the best of it. What
might have happened under other conditions
is hardly worth considering in print.