Waterbury Democrat., 1901-04-20
.L|PTONS NEN CHALLENGER
The Shamrock Was Successfully
 Launched To-Day.

He Has More Confidence Than He Had the Last Time.
 Dumbarton, April 20.-Shamrock II. was successfully launched this after noon at Denny's yards in the presence of a crowd of invited guests, news paper men and employees. Lady Duff rer1n christened the new challenger, | which looked spic and span in it's coat of white paint, trimmed with green, | while her manganese bottom shone l like q mirror.
 Lord and Lady Dufferin, Sir Thomas l Lipton and others, who came from l Glasgow on a special train, stood upon Il raised platform decorated with l Union Jacks, the Stars and Stripes and the Irish flag, and with Venetian masts
 in green and white, which were the l prevailing colors.
 1 The weather could not have been hmore favorable, the sun shone brightly | and oyercoats were discarded. The employees of the Dennys had q holiday, and in fact all Dumbarton was ell fete to see Lady Dufferin break the bottle over the curiously snub-nosed bow of l the new boat
 l British experts here to-day are very confident about the new boat and | think her the best that ever challenged | for the cup.
 But if you don't win,' said the cor respondent of The Associated Press, to Sir Thomas Lipton, will you try it again?"
 .I expect next year to build a de- fender, not challenger" was the | diplomatic answer.
 In this connection the manager of Denny's yard said:
 When James Gordon Bennett saw I the Shamrock II. here Q few weeks ago. he said: Well if she wins I am prepared to build q challenger
 At 11:4o a. m. to-day, Sir Thomas Upton personally conducted the cor respondent over and under the sham rock II. This minute inspection con- firmed the cabled description of the cup challenger. She is built on gen. eral type but embodieS such novelties as prove that her designer pursued an independent line of development. When the yacht is viewed in profile, the most striking feature is the ex- treme fineness of her ends. The over hangs fore and aft are drawn out to exceptional length, and the waterline underneath looks deceptively short. Her fin is of the medium length. prob ably thirty feet at the extreme meas urement, and is finished at the bottom with a pronounced rocker. Without doubt, the chief characteristic of the yachts design is the manner in which her beam is thrown right forward ,al- most into the eyes of the boat. The forward deck lines are carried out full well into the overhang, and the draw ing in does not start until half way be- tween the mast and the stern. From about the mast it runs aft in a long, easy curve, and goes out into the longest and finest counter ever seen on cup challenger, the breadth at the taffrail being only about seven feet.
 For the purpose of saving weight the stem is snubbed off, leaving a small,
 flat. triangular surface under the bow spirit.
 The form of the deck, with its wide lines forward and exceptionally fine run, has the appearance of having been suggested by towing experts. In the Shamrock l. the well-defned stem was carried from under the bowsprit to the top of the fin, but in the new boat the stem stops short before it reaches the waterline. Under this the sections of the boat run in perfect semi-circles and gives this part Of the hull the exact shape of the forward end of a soup spoon. Some danger of forming an awkward shoulder might have been expected in drawing the wide deck down to the final lines of the underbody, but the problem ap- pears to have been successfully met. Every line runs true and sweep. The general shape of the bows gives the impression of q boat which should be able to keep her head well up, no mat l. n ol,..~ 1,n> was in this ability to keep her head up that the Columbia's chief superiority over the first Shamrock lay. To take the first Shamrock as a- standard for comparison it may be said that the principle of making the yacht sail over rather than through the water, will be pushed very much faster in the present races. There is none of the flat sides under the bow or big shoulder seen tn the Fife boat.
 When the yacht is viewed, end-on, it is seen that Mir. Watson has depart ed greatly from the midship section adopted by Fife. The new challenger is immeasureably easier than the pre- vious boat in the turn of the bilge and garboards. and easier even than Go lumbia. The fin is narrow ill the sec tion where 1t joins the hull, and II the trough in which the lead is carried The same principle of skimming water is seen in the after end. All the sec tions are again in segments of a circle.
 The total draught from the water line to the bottom of the rockered curve of the keel, is only an inch or two over eighteen feet. with two feet less than the previous challenger.
 In the measurement of the extreme beam there is little difference. though the point of this measurement falls much further forward i'll the Fife boat.
 In the matter of over all length. the advantage lies with the new craft by nearly ten feet.
 Summing up, the challenger un- doubtedly has the finest lines ever turned out of the Clyde. She undoubt- edly has hull that will be easily driv- ell. Her beam will give her good deal of stability. But she will probab- ly sail trifle tender and will be best suited when clubtopsails can be car ried with dry decks.
 Captain Hogarth. who sailed the last challenger, said to the correspondent of The Associated Press:
 "Everything has been done in the best possible way. I have more con- fidence than I ever had before."
 w c. Jameson of Dublin (who sail- ed the Prince of Wales cutter the Bri- a ,1.