The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-02-25
LOOKS PROMISING ron zach TING.
Builders Are Busy Turning Out New Boa0
for Racing.

SO many new boats are being built now tha1
with the cracks Of last season, some Of which
are To be altered and improved, the outlook for a
brilliant yacht racing season is exceedingly good.
Class & takes in all sloups. cutters and yawls over
eighty feet racing length. In this class are CO.
lumbia, Defender, N!gilant and Navahoe. Co.
lumbIa and Defender are not expected 10 be in
commission, but Commodore Percy Chubb Of the
S'awauhaka totinthlan Yacht Club, will have
the \ igIaGt ont, ana # Royal Phelps Carroll puts
he Nayahur IN commission, as he probably will,
these Two yachts viii fight Their battles over again.
The new boats being bul.l al lerreShotls for
NiCr-t commodore Belmont, ext commodore l.. ID.
and others, will lie classified under letter ii, and
tins class Will furnish the most interesting con.
less ol the year. These yachts are all built
alike and II will be n rare test of skill 20 handle
one well, In Class | Will be the Queen Nab.
owned by Clifford ' lirOkaw, and the Fife cutter
Isolde, which has been purchased by +. NJ. lloyt,
who last year owned the Syce. In Class j, fifty
one 10 sixty feet racing length, the asp will race.
and II IL SAID a new yacht Tor this class Is being
built by ilerreshoti, and is 10 be ready early in
the season.
The racing in Class X, forty.,hree 10 fifty one
feet racing length, should he very interesting.
The Sycc, the crack boat Of the class for three
= yr %n,Sl Is nov N 2 w. by itfaI '3m NUM-, e. r. T /:
ke>tTal, owned by John Is Mills, is 10 have alter
atoms male that are expected 10 improve the
sailing qualities Of the yacht. Three new yachts
hive a. 1not +, Nor i,ur.I. War,e.b,T Is con.
s,rn,,i%r Iw " "na nf f., 'G"i Wnyer nrd an" iar { 0I fVn,
AmeS, and Tom Weber. mt New Rnrhelle, is
building one for j. ID, Baird. The latter il tD
b., an enlarged iIns>ar, and If she is successful
may cousa sons changes in Yacht bnildino
and designing in the future. The Syce il a keel
boat built from designs by William Gardner nv
r NOD a, Gitv land Tbe Eas,,sl Vas a.
sirnei nv WilliSym FL. .Ir and buil, nv vWooS.
The Uerr.sbnf 81 prnjnct,nns win he kesl bos,s'
And The Webbrr vessel viii he Of shoei dramyht'
f,iI Lr.sJ ca,t,ob,a,l IL - ,,ss,bIa 1900
Asbnn"t NAV hn ,o,at i, Dis 81 cr"N ''o0 NAV "s
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si,,is M, ,hc h,nls , 70 al N "a aess
Thr old onSs ona \opot, uuss.r TTuda.s
AID NT, "'Tho MI, .o,J >o,nas ~ t EuuIan
h"n,s Tia Iud..h :" a." o "Tn ana a d sd ~
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hesUt h " liz H ~ Xxx " ,bi W." Is oHg ~ !, ms
p"n, '"ruuu q sa,hl u III SsCuVh. nena
s Ga t. Hrnvt"' ip",S Su',TSS,uIS pu, 'uI une pheS
I'IurSS ,nal MS nanr hr hot menuohed.
~. = n1M.'tI - hahLnE a P'ni pull Tor ms ciass
sES,nsi hy p, W. m"'"'"''u "hAen mas oeeh oe
H'j,,'L ny turuun' =,
III Class NJ, 81 to 80 feet racing length,
w. WI pe moro suou thclhg lhe
Nioa'Hh MnH 'rcehuy purchased pyJ 7; Mntuh.
VIZ. WI san h'r' ~ We hoAtS OF last year
~ Meet we Aihoat"k are The P,nSSlIm, Harry Max
wen, ~ Acushla, {. T. Wills; Memory f..
nIPr Norton, ana the oAhima San. There
WIZ De Two new boats IN thus class. Hetreshof
y building one fog Oswald Sunaer,on, who former
tne other one together from designs by Clinton
II ,Ctan'.
uete VIII ba j. II. Maxwell. .Jr's Oissau,