New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28

| malnboom 1O9 feet inches: gar (abouD 70 feet;
! bowsprt IS feet topmast 81 feet spinnaker boom.
% feet.
The difficulty OF getting information on these
points and the liability 70 be misled by misunder-
standing the intended OF certain spar Is H.
! Illustrated in this paragraph clipped from THE
Globe: a possible sail plan for the boat out
| lined on April 49, based absolute knowledge
OF all the spar lengths. except those OF the boom
and gan. and on the presumption that the lOl-foot
| steel spar building in the Herreshofrs' shops was
| the Columba's boom. 1t now appears that this
spar Is a mast and not a boom. and also that the
Is stepped quite so far aft as at first APP
peared Subsequent Information as to the boom
and gan shows the sail plan then outlined to have
been too small"
That calculation suggested that the sail plan OF
the Columbia would be only $40 feet larger than
that OF the Defender. but the alteration has oc-
CURED in the after and not in the forward, areas
The forward area remains the same as that for
merly printed In The Tribune.
FEW NEW POINTS.
An extended description of the hull is not now
needed. but few points may be brought out
and old emphasized The yacht has
seventy-seven frames spaced twenty inches on CEN
tres. which gives here length from frame to
frame - OF 126 feet inches. The construction
goes about three feet forward OF frame /. and a
little less than feet aft OF frame .. giving close
TO I3l feet inches over all The designed water
line length IS six inches short OF the @foot limit
to allow FOR trimming and any variation in weights.
The beam is a trhe more than q feet as shown on
the scribing boards on which the yacht was iald
down The draught is close to 70 feet. probaoly
little less but II cannot be accurately given as
the beam. since the water-line Is not shown on me
depth OF the hull which IS q feet from plankshear
four feet gives draught OF ~ feet
The forward end OF the water-line Is close 20
frame This point has Sny peeen WHICH 1esn IN a
large Herreshof boats Is Just apoEe me "aI tL
line and has now oeen pra on ' iS and n with
this important point fixed, forward oyerhang OF
readily apparent Frame co. at the upper end OF
the rudder-pos shows that the rudder Is set under
fnrwops end Of the lead keel and a. at the after
end fix its length at about 81 feet. and with the
The lead keel is straight on its bottom and parallel
with the water-line for eighteen reel anu ,nen
III The boat is now known to be OF bronze all over
have suggested The thckest plating is one-quar-
ter inch on the =, oWsr on the upper
The shoeing OF the keel is one-elghth-inch bronze
The sail plan now given claims attention as being
the first as far has come 10 the writer KNOW
and exactness in figures. II is In many ways re-
arkable yet az whOs x.I Is ", we biz PT Ipn
sail Now that the exact position and shape OF the
plane Of the hull ds snsse the ts ss bd 1fn and
10 avoid that tendency to carry lee helm whlch
he Defender had as tOln ny thpihln NJ
The mast is stepped between frames - ana
% SO that it's forward side Is about twenty -eIsht
Sss, from the forward end OF the water-llne. ibis
ia about foot further aft than the Defenders Inc
G-ao nine mast H. C7 feet inches long by actual
=, aasyrament TWENTY-FIVE feet IL put into the
masthead. and It bures about eight feet six Incheo
heior the deck leaving q feet from deck 10
p,Ss -, ave feet more than In the Defender. Its
dismeter al the hounds Is p inches and at me
deck aoi. Inches The topmast IL "a feet IN tne
rough II ought to show about foot less IN meas.
nrsrnen, for sat area The bowspru goes aDouI
,uentv-seyen feet making the distance from the !
fore-ide of the mast TO the forward point OF meas
urement midway between the Jibstay and topmas,-
s,av a little more than seventy three rect. tnus
cnackinr OF the length OF the spinnaker boom Inc
sieel MANHOOD Is lO9 feet inches long Inc gan y
1rohahIv between slxty-nine and seventy feet ana
his e. the only measurement on which there Is any
These extra lengths show an ADDITION
-, .,rin Of about three and one-half 10 four feet
~ width beyond the after leach OF the peteilders
sinsaT when that boat carried her 1m-foot Doom
TIE mast and all the spars except gan ana
hos,m were made In Boston, and were measured .