New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-02-04
YACHTS AND YACHTSMEN
MORE CANVAS FOR THE IsoLDE-THE
ONE DESIGN sEvENTY-FooTERs

.rrfvas on This side her new owner Commodore
Frederick NJ Hoyt, Will give her a larger sail pan
that she heretofore carried in her home racing
This found necessary In the Watson oeslsheu
Queen NAB when she brought over for Percy
Chubb and the general rule is that yachts require
more canvas for the American breezes, which nave
less moisture and weight In them than those IN the
neghborhood OF the British Isles. The waterhhe
length OF the Isolde has been differently published.
but has generally been put at about 60 seet- me
is 50 feet 1112 inches the waterline, ~ Feet
all. Ie feet BEAM, and with IL feet draught
The Isolde is said to have Is feet draught and
inches more beam. The Nab now has 400 square
feet of SAIL and the Isolde with her extra beam
and power, viii receive on this side OF the water
about $50 square feet more. She now carries
about 5000 feet. Both these racers are OF COM
posite buiid. having wooden panking on steel
frames and If the Nab be not too much empowered
good racing may be expected. The Isolde has the
fine lines of the Yama. designed by Fife. jr. for
Allan Ames. of oswego. and the zelma and the
Canada, ordered by members Of the Royal Canadian
Yacht Club. These three yachts were all ordered
for international races, and all successful in
their year Her new owner has for good
many years been the possessor of a crack boat
in different classes. and he is certain to have the
Isolde true concert pitch when he starts her in
a race.
NEW ONE DESIGN CLASS.
Further information has just been received in re-
gard the four 7O-foot waterlne cutters now or
dered from the Herreshoffs for W. X. Vanderbilt,
5r, August Belmont larry Payne Whitney and
E. d. Morgan As these yachts of one-design
class the dimensions of the Belmont craft Mineola
may be taken applying TO all The general spar
dimensions of the Mineola, for the first time
published N New-York as follows: Mast, rs
feet inches (extrerne lengthy; topmast, AZ feet
inches; boWsprit, 25 feet inches; main boom, 10
feet gaf AZ feet inches; spinnaker boom, IS feet
inches; No topsail yard, S6 feet inches; No.
topsail yard, IS feet inches; No. l topsail club,
IS feet s inches No 2 topsa club q feet inches.
The mast is 81 feet from deck TO hounds and IA
feet IN the masthead. It is 15S inches In diameter
just i,eow the hounds. The extreme diameter of
the boom is u inches OF topmast s12 inches; bow
spirit. lo34 inches; gaff. inches, and spinnaker
boom. slk inches.
The club topsail yards hattened on the SIDES
which IS a new departure in spar making, and they
6 by SIS by ~ inches respectively in Nos
/ and 2, The No l club topsai yard is 5A inches
in diameter, and the sized club quarter of
an inch smaller The spars selected are OF OrTsoT
will give good sized spread OF sail TO the boat
now seen The Mineola has long lines and much of
the graceful sheer and easy sweep that charaGt o
proportion those liz the last Cup defender, and
pearance than is seen in the most superb Of all
large yachts. They also have more beam in pro-
bia. the latter having three and one-third beams
to the waterline length As seen since her launch
at Herreshof wharf. the MineoIa is found to be
frames. single planked below the waterline and
20 feet on the Eaterine 20 feet in beam with Is
feet draught of water and carrying forty tons Of
ae M s % Boston sP %sre ar william III Baey
mas them in charge for the Boston Spar on
in these yards and the measurements given as
Instead of going to the highest possible construc-
ton and 70 the extreme limit in ballast Has and san to
by agreeing on one design have secured s We
Soa e9en they have no secured the Greatest
possible speed for their waterline length, while
be saab as cruisers for many yesTs after aft they
Of these yachts viii be chiefly done at Newport.
they viii also attend the races Of The Eastern
waters; and as all the owners are members of the
s5 II b e5 o rugs Of s ens p sn61
CRUISES cTsd.es an the S9u''0H fFi'S 'H'S '''O annual
PLANS FOR THE ENDYMIoN.
The schooner Endynion is going to Devils Island |
where Dreyfus was imprisoned. She will first call
at Bermuda and Trinidad and afterward will visit
most Of the West Indian ports The owner, George |
Lord Day. has with him guests Seymour L.
Hustled, Of the New-York Yacht Club the owner
of the schooner Crusader. and Mr.. Hoyt. The de-
signer the yacht, Clinton Crane. will cruise with
MS last production as iar as Bermuda and VIII Vii
a long time has been skipper for Mr. Day his
former schooner, the Fieur de Lys, is in charge
Of the new yacht. Besides the mate and steward
there are fifteen men in the crew. The bottom of
s an6 H men De @ m amer her 1npea =.
waters for ehout two years.
Club. has sold his schooner the Glendower, to a
gaehts9a,n n the sane club The yacht is to be
in 1884 and measures 10 feet over ali with water
line Of IS feet beam of ID feet inches and
Ami I. BARRIERS steam yacht Sapphire. of the
mont NJ. P. OUT. Of MaTseies on a long voyage
The first call will be at the Cape of Good Hope.
Sapphire left Marseilles January H. Up to last
year this yacht was known as the Roma. when she
Was owned by the late Baron Ferdinand de
cop Pano ~ 4 KiPp Of the Harlem Yacht Club
good record in Eastern waters This boat was
Quilt by aanley; OF Quincy Point, Mass. Her over
iqches. and beam, Is feet The Ashumet will make
Day Of IL these rs@ Yacht in the c Ms
aEd Commodore Kipp will race her regularly ali
The raceabout the Persimmon has been bought
y Boston 5I, by II De Yer Warner Of the Bridgeport
fecht Ciub VINO viii race her the Sound this
c. L. F. Robinson. who is on the nominating
New-York Yacht Club, will be prominent In vaobt
purchaser Of the syce atey sod sa He Is the
Hoyt. and at present he is on the way to Mar
which ne has chartered from the Earl Of Lstbom
for several months. CRUISING in the Mediterranean
The racing canoe the chquita has been sold by
Matthew ohImeyer. of the Knickerbocker Canoe 90
Club. 0'iioe
NEw-RocHELLE YAcHTSMEN WILL. DINE
Charles P Tower the chairman of the Regatta
Committee and acting secretary of the New
Rochelle Yacht Club, gave notice yesterday that
after the annual meeting. be held at the Hotel
Manhattan tomorrow evening, the members would
sit down to informal supper The full notice of
this annual meeting was printed in The Tribune of
Colonel David E. Austen the secretary of the
Auantic Yacht Club sent notices to the members
held at the Waldorf-Astoria Monday February
1;, at 10 p he M some amendments to the racing
TIE following is the ticket Of the Nominating Com
dore. Robert p. Doremus; rear commodore Stepben