Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-03
WATSON'S NEW BOAT.

2Oc at G. l.. Dexter x JOS druS sLoIe. WATSON'S NEW BOAT.
 When the British skipper Captain
 Edward Sycamore, came here on visit a few months ago, he was loud
 in his praise of George l.. Watsons
 latest creation. the Sybarita. Captain Sycamore had taken out the new
 yacht and with her. untried and un-
 tuned, beaten over and over again the German emperors crack yacht Meteor The captain admitted then that he had come over to take look around and see the seventy-footers, and that he
 had been engaged by Sir Thomas Lip ton. if not to sail the next challenger
 at least ito do a little with the Sham
 rock in the Mediterranean" Nobody
 doubts that Captain Edward Sycamore
 will be the professional skipper on board Shamrock H.. and second in
 command only to the finest amateur
 in Europe. the Irish yachtsman. Will
 liam G. Jameson. who eight years ago sailed his own yacht, the Iyerna. to a dead heat in Wemys bay with the Meteor, and steered the Prince of Wales's Britannia time and time again
 to victory over all comers beating even the successful cup defender. the
 Eigilant, when she visited British
 waters. It may be said to be equally
 certain, that Mir Watson, who is to
 design. or has designed. the new
 Shamrock, experimented in fashioning
 the Sybarita with view to the next
 challenger. When designing the Sy- barita for Whitaker Wright he had
 been already engaged by Sir Thomas
 Upton, and in the Sy ybarita herself he practically turned out q challenger
 The Sybarita is a yaw1, but so much has she been talked about, and in a | Natson-Lipton connection, that many | on both sides of the Atlantic harbored
 a sort of half belief that in the chal- | lcnge which has come at last the boat 1 specified would be yawl That the | Sybarita is remarkable boat is gen. | orally admitted. and the only thing un settled about her quality is whether she could not show clean pair of
 heels to the old Shamrock, just as she | showed them to the Meteor MT Wat | son has always been believer in boats | Of the composite build and so the ma terlals used in the construction of the | SyDar1ta were wood and steel. but both | were wonderfully light With this combination he produced a craft in 1 which lightness is one of the chief | characteristics. From stem to taffrail 1 the Sybarita is 135 feet long. as a2ainst the Shamrock's 129 feet inches. She
 Is 50 feet on the water line, and her
 beam is 23 feet. while the Shamrock's
 was Fl feet inches. The Columbia's
 length over all was 132 feet and her beam B feet inches Her bow is
 long and very fine. but her counter.
 also fine, is shorter. So long, indeed | is her bow and so fine away the lines
 that she looks slim thing which | could not possibly have beam meas
 urement of 8 feet. But with all her | fine bow and counter the Sybarita looks anything but pretty, and her de- | gree of ugliness depends a great deal on the point of view. And it is not | perhaps so much that she is ugly as it is that she is peculiar.
 Taking broadside view of her she appears to have long drawn flat sided, shallow body, with fine ends and little shear. Looking from the end she ap-
 pears to have a bluff bow, a shallow body, with a softly turning bilge. The flare of the sides goes well above the water line. but there is practically no tumble home. Broadside on one gets the impression of a deep and square fin, while from the end there seems to be no fin above the lead at the for ward end, and that it gets its depth by cutting away the after body. A deck view IallS 10 discover any flowing curves. anything, in fact. more than might be found on any old tub. save l that q long wedge-shaped bow pre- | sents itself and that there is q lean | quarter! Sharpness seems to be every | where. and the cutting away from the | point or greatest beam at the chain | plates leaves an ugly bulge. And yet all this Is only apparent, for once over ! the side one finds the lines running beautifully and not at all as they ap- | peared from deck. The Sybarita car l fles even lower and wider mainsail than did the Shamrock. and her main mast which looks stumpy, is stepped | we'll forward. Her topmast is also Il | short affair. The mizzen is as far aft l as it is possible to carry it. The main
 mast is of Oregon pine, but the main
 boom is built of -quarter-inch steel 1 plates, strengthened internally with | spurs and struts. while the caff and I spinnaker boom are of wood hollowed l out. The Sybarita's lead of ninety l tons is cast fat-sided without trace
 of bulb. but the weight is said to l be more evenly distributed throughout 1 its forty feet of length than in any craft built in recent years
 l Whether Mr Watson, in his design l of the new Shamrock, will follow the
 lines of the Sybarita. which after all
 seems to be combination of Shamrock and Columbia. following more after I the Herreshof style, he must certain I ly. in view of her cleverness when l pitted against the Meteor, have profit | ed by her construction, and so make q l big advance on his former work with 1 the Valkyrie. The chances must be l very much mora in favor of Sir Thonl-