New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-03-05
YACHTING.
NEW DEFENDER DOES NOT CLOSELY
FOLLOW LINES OF THE SPEED
lest CRAFT.
A CHANCE FOR FIFE IF he ADHEREs TO THE
SHAPE OF THE CARTOONS HULL


Bristol r T. March 4 (SpeciaD. From the way me
work is proceeding on the new defending yacht 10.
Commodore Morgan It is evident that the vessel
Will be finished well within contract time Eighteen
Of the steel central frames are in position. Inc
inderbody OF the boat will be somewhat sh@I-
lower than in the old Defender. The length Of mo
bronze keelplate which for convenience was cast
N three sections is between twenty-elght ana
,h,,tv feet or from five TO feet shorter than
this plate in the Defender Across the top II IS ne
same width namely twenty inches, this being
also The width Of the top OF the lead mine. ms
casting OF about ninety tons. is fiat sided ana not
Dubbed as In the Defender. Its sides slope out
ward as they descend. from twenty inches al the
ton IN eighty more than thirty-siX inches at the
bottom like the sides OF "A coffin me bottom %
this lead is fat throughout its entire length except
whore the forward corner is rounded up, and there
IS none Of The rocker shape that marked tnis
mart OF the Defenders keel. All the lead VIII be
incased I'm q tcht-htt.ng bronze Jacket part o.
which IS now in place. The frames are o. steer
angle bulbs made in.two parts as IN the D'Iehu'r
and will be strapped. riyeted and spaced at twenty
inches i'm he same way. Whether the stem VIII De
q CASTING or not has not yet been discovered nut
the Defenders stem was only steel angie lo"i
inches by four inches. and from one-quartei 10
three-eighihs Of an inch thick. This FORMED me
stem and bound the ends OF the shell plating with
double riveting though IL was nearly always said
that .he Defender had bronze casting for stem.
and il was partly on account OF the possible weak
ness In this region that she was not considered by
some yncht,meu to be well adapted for the heavy
seas 81 an ocean passage. The plating Of he ne"
boa VIII be on the raised and sunken system,
secured 10 the frames by single row OF rivets all
butt straps to be double riveted. Thus the strake
which covers the kceplate will lap the edges Of the
strake above n which IN its turn viii undery The
edges Of 'he strake next higher.
~ 20 the water-llne the plating viii be OF Toph
bronze eeven- fortleths Of inch thick and above
the Wuter-line the plating Will BE- Of nickel Steel
rye-fOrteths OF inch thick. The yacht VIII nave
two hight nickel steel bulkheads one on frame l.
and one on frame ~ al each OF which points me
frames will be- double Her overall Length Will DE
l2S feet with % beam slightly more than = ieei ana
Il draught Of water OF from 1916 TO % feet she Wi.
thus be one foot wider. five or six feet longer over
ali and one foot longer on the watcr-line than the
Defender. with larger sail plan and slightly
smaller displacement. The rudder VIII be hung on
the cast bronze sternpOst and Will reach 10 me
bnttorn OF the lead The sO-called nn-keel OF fhis
boat rises I'm almost straight lines from the lower
outer edges OF the LEAD whore the frames curve
outward toward the biigos. and, while some or the
Defenders depth OF body has been cut away. mere
has not been such a fattcninc OF the floor as would
forcbly remind one Of the cartoon or any or me
latest @l-fOofers. In other words, she IL In her
underbody a slightly improved Defender. bur T. by
no means "a close follower OF those ultra Nat ana
shallow types which have shown the best speed IA
smaller classes and there Is. Il T. thought.
chance for Fife to produce a faster boat by ad-
herring more closely to the general shape Of hull
shown I'm the Cartoon In the new defending cfnft
the shape Of the fastest known model has not Deen
followed