New-York tribune., 1900-07-01
YACHTING.
SHOWN BY THE ONE DESIGN
SEVENTY FOOTERS

With the best one design fleets eternal vigilance
Is the price Of victory. II in any quarter that
fact was not sufficiently appreciated after the
teachings of the Herreshon of special thtrties
II has been shown beyond doubt to be true by
the contests Of the ore design feet Of 10
footers. Here four crafts quilt exactly alike
same ballast canvas. spars and rigging and
Identical IN shape and material Of hull and yet one
of them has shown herself so superior to the other
Two with which she raced that she almost seemed
TO be n another class When the AIineoIa was
able beat her sister ship, the Virginia bv more
than twenty minues in the last seawanbaka race
the victory neld important lesson regarding the
necessary tuning UP Of racing vessels besides sup
rIyllg explanatory footnCtes and diagrams re-
gardlng the last international racing None but
IKE eye of sn expert would be apt TO notice before
The start that the club topsaiIs Of the Rainbow
and The Virginia were not setting they should
and there doubtless other defects in prepara-
ton which were invisible TO the spectator who
came no nearer 10 the craft than two hundred
yards.
''Its the things you don't see that count" said
2 wei known skipper the other day. The man
who Is steering whether his forestays are
TOO slack and let his canvas sag 70 Ieeward He
can what is the matter with his big ropsau
and how the bending Of the unaiuboC-u IS spoiling
the set OF MS u1ai1saE But how Is a suecrstor 10
twig these small defects from distance Of
quarter OF g mile? In spite Of all the inquiry
the world never knew what was the matter with
rhe Shamrock until the shippers OF both com
Almost precisely the same story was told
when the unprepared Rainbow ard Virginia
raced against boat that had been steadily tuned
l-u for month IN that tine Wringe had mad his
rCpsaLs cur 10 1t, his rigging set up hold
things their proper work, and little defects
OF which rhe racing glory Of q country 50 often
C=p6E-s were set r ghL. The result was tlat the
cher boats had nc more chance with the NIIneoa
thar ca-ooaL Personally L don't thtnk any boat
goes into race n her best possible condition.
Ire Columbia probably came nearest to this but
lock a. the months Of daily testing that had be
gone through 10 get everything right Il was
i this ueet the case i different, because know
thai the RAINBOW ana the other can Ce made
fast the Mileola- L would therefore be Id
claim superiority Of model IN either the Coum-
ba the Shamrock, because that the
challenger bound IS
brisk wind developed the defects CT rigging sails
hand and reuedied. as II the case OF the CoIunl-
tIa."
The teaching q the seventies which future ChaI-
le-Ee-s VI 90 well 70 consider IS this that
far 70 model and canvas. nothing but ua-easrg
preparation and continuous slight Improvement
hope 70 win And this point Is emphasized
because between equally good boats It !s nearly the
whole game Tor many months last year Nat
Es--es-C- had practically 10 existence apart from
--l- NJ the Columbia. On her and I'll her d0iugs
aIC possible Improvement he brought untiru-
concentration that Is peculiarly American and
never been known 70 the same extent in the Eng
IsE preparation Tor z racing Held " 1e1 Fife
appeared here with the Shamrock and said that
the boat good she could De made.
Tls.CE -c take her Ont 70 test her. he showed 81
ths- he was wholly un-Arrerlcan. The ch-
i-ES -t The seventies, The tEl-C-es and the
sbou-s have The effect Of placing al that kind OF
preparation class by Itself L IS & class which
without exception finishes last.