New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-07-02
YACHTING.
NO INFORMATION YET CONCERNING
THE UNDERWATER PART OF
THE SHAMROCK

THE SHAMROCK
Views OF the Shamrock gained at the time Of
/ her launching have told practically nothing about
the boat The challenger was launched in broad
| daylight and without curtains TO hide her shape.
Probably every important newspaper in England
had agent somewhere In the vicinity. and at the
| present moment not one person in America knows
anything about her underwater shape. To ;he
| yachtsman and to the designer the centre section
/ Of n racing yacht is everything. There was moth
| ing to prevent any from approaching the
! Thorneycrofts yards a privately hired launch
10 photograph draw the centre section OF the
new boat. Not even an idea OF her underwater
shape has been given and the English newspaper
men to have thought that their whole duty
was done when they accurately repeated the words
OF Lady Russell when she chrtstened the craft.
The consequence is that the yachting world
will have 10 wait till the Shamrock goes 10 be
cleaned in the Erie Basin drydock. What every
member IN the New-York Yacht Club wants is
description OF the mdshp section Of that boat.
The latest reports do not venture to give anything
more than n description OF the hull visible
above water and from the squat. low-lying APP
pearance OF the afterpart OF same It Is guessed
that the beam Is more excessive than has been
previously reported in English papers Twenty
Ave feet instead OF twenty-five feet. OF beam is
now suggested. and the boat Is said 20 be or
/ the brute" class II this be true It Will mean
that Fife has departed from the traditions OF his
firm. which is now three generations old. The two
living Flies father and son. have been noted for
producing the "cleanest" most refined boat In
England The effort OF this firm has always been
for the scientific outline that beats the brute as
the napier defeats the bludgeon.
MAY BE DEEPER THAN THE COLUMBIA.
There does, however. seem to be reason TO believe
that the Shamrock is much deeper than the Co
lurnbia- The waters into which she was launched.
although known TO be nearly twenty-nine feet deep,
were carefully sounded before the ceremony; and.
since then the man who controlled the depth OF
water in the dock in which the Shamrock has
hoated saws that the depth was twenty mine feet,
and was 70 be kept at that as long as the chal-
lenger was ioated within. Reports about the
yards vary. and while II IL asserted with confidence
that she is twenty-six feet deep others say her
depth IL only twenty-five feet. Even at the lesser
dsph she will be about two feet six inches deeper
than the Columbia, and as there seems to be a
general agreement among the workmen thar her
weight OF lead L. eighty tons IL seems nuttiUS his
lead at a depth not heretofore known IN the racing
cutter. This outside ballast Is evidently ten IONS
lighter than the Columba's and Is Intended 10
make I'D for the difference in the further leverage
gained through being hung lower. ,se
The greatest danger that faces the Herresh0Is
and the holders Of the cup is that TINS loW-ying
seen her is more nearly like the Cartoon than is
tho Columbia There is a good deal OF the scoW
waV and the boat has shapely enough bow with
rather heavy and powerful after quarters, the
fh o oyerau length Of forty-nve feet and
water-llne length OF twenty-five teet she urd"s
p,,iider frank wood when The Tribune reported
her. April 3, 1895 her extreme beam is 9 feet II
This remaTkabe boat beat everything in sight liza last
year and finished before boats OF Srger ci sSs
the only boat OF any size IN whieh me wer
Comblned and reproduced. In her was found the
most modern development ana her type IL the
fastest that floats on water
ENGLISH BOAT LIKE THE CARTOON.
The latest news about the Shamrock as she Is
now seen floating looking squat and beamier 'hah
she nrobablv is with her small freeboard' seems
like an attempt to describe a so-foot Cartoon by
ono uho never saw a Cartoon. Howard Parker
did not let Wood. his builder, know what lead ~ a.
going on the An keel. The casting was Ha u
Elsewhere and was put on subsequently, pu. sue
WAS evidently heavily baasted on her nm ana Ia, az
she portrayed In all yachun1g oppS}Pnary sue
must have known all ABOUT her eAuaoiu'''' "
some yachtsmen think that the Soiumo %. Ea,n
bodv- is not an improved Defender but an I'M
proved Valkyrie III, .-o-,o socrocv about the
thermal construction OF his challenger is not chleny
for the purpose Of secreng TINS ss oIst b9t NAV
make him the master OF long purses "nT This idea
boats Of highest speed WI De rb ON Flies tactics
II may easily prove to be that Ere mas
something that was really worth secre''ns'
TUT GRAFT AND THOSE WHO SAIL THEM
The annual regatta Of the Sea Clf Yacht Club
u,,u he held OH July : The races are open TO all
classes Of 81 feet racing length and under and the
start will be made at II O'Clock sharp'
The annual regatta OF the Stamford Yacht Club
g.. - 30 sailed tomorrow. The sO-foot schooner
class will be the largest boats to sail ana mere er
viii be ali sizes down to the larks The preparatory
signal viii be sounded at ll:0 a m.
Tho 1archn,ont Yacht Club has received entries
from clubs all along the Sound for the regatta on
Julv 4. and It looks II the list here would De
record breaker
yacbtsren will have 10 chs-ge their diaries as 10
the races for the Seawanhaka Challenge cup the
dates FOR which have by agreement with the Royal
St Lawrence Yacht Club been rh altered Inc "'S'
race will be held on THURSDAY july 80
Commodore Postey has appointed James H ster-
ling TO be feet captain OF the Larchmont facht
club on Thursday. July Il: THURSDAY August i.
and Thursday September l., there Will be ladies'
davs and on these dates there Will be music ana
daIyc,ng from 10 II .. m. The dining-room FOR
women has been finished. and was used Tor the hrs'
time yesterday
Tho racing cat Bogie has been sold by Frederick
( Mock. She has been fitting out at Bristol anu
left there for New-York yesterday on her way to
Philadelphia
,rb. eagshin ~ the New-York Yacht Club returned
Nth Mr. Morgan from Newport yesterday anu
spchoTed IN the Hudson River of Thirty-hfth-st
W H. Roberts OF New-York. has bought the
steam launch Estele. and the yacht will come here
from Bristol once.
rleischmann New-York Yacht Club. has ar
rived IN New-York from Rondout' y. y on Dod'u
his steam yacht Hiawatha She is no" at the East
piver club station. Twenty sixth-st
On Wednesday. July s. the American Yacht Clubs
annual regatta will start at noon. and all classes
will have chance 10 race for sood pii|eS no
- ii, ba OF tho clubhouse at Milton Point.
Rve and entries will close with stuyvesant VAIN
wright tomorrow
The steam yacht Nahma which lately brought
tho hodv OF her late owner. Robert Goelet. from
Naoles 10 Newport, has returned TO the clyde
whore she has been laid up In her old quarters at
C,..,. Under he will OF Mr.. Cioelet, this craft