Connecticut western news., 1901-08-15
SHA AMROCK ARRIVES.
LlPTON'S NEW YACHT NOW AT TIRE
 ERIE BASIN.
Challenger Is a Beauty-shows Very Marked Improvements. Over Racer Which the Columbi Defeated-WiII Soon He In RacinR Trim.

Challenger Ia e Beauty-Shows Very
 Marked Improvement. over Racer
 Which the Columbia Defeated-Wiil
 Soon He In Racing Trim.
 Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock II, challenger for the Americas cup, ar rived In New York harbor on Monday and Is now at the Erie basin, in South Brooklyn. The work of retitting her is progressing rapidly, and she will soon be ready for trial trips. The voyage over was uneventful and was accom- the bay by the steam yacht Erin.
 The cabled descriptions of Shamrock II have not given an adequate idea Of her superiority in gracefulness of line over the craft that sailed 5000 miles to be defeated by Columbia. The chal- lenger of 1901 Is nearer the general hull plan of that splendid American creation than any yacht that has cross ed the ocean to fight for the supremacy of the shipbailder's art.
 She has keener, sharper nose than Shamrock I. Her stern tapers to q width so narrow that it is not more than enough to hold her name in black letters two inches wide, with margin of four inches at the beginning and the ending. Instead of the stubby brow of the first Shamrock she extends out sharply, with great overhang. It gives no promise of pounding and bat tering the waves as Shamrock I did The designer learned that lesson iron. the American conqueror.
 Veteran yachtsmen say that Watson learned much from a study of the prov of the Gloriana, that marvellous racing machine produced by the Herreshoffs which, to all intents and purposes, revolutlonized marine archi- lecture in yachts built for speed. The whole fore body suggests a skillful adaptation of the best of the Watson the Fife and the Herreshofr concep- tions.
 Compared with the first Shamrock the stern of the new challenger Is as far ahead in artistic design as the steer. ing end of forked tail trout Is to that The overhang Is something extraor- dinary.
 Great Improvements shown.
 It seems certain from the perfection and symmetry of the visible lines tha, Watson has something under the water which will be a surprise when the rae ing days come. From the water lins to the long eclipse, which in other yachts would be called the rail, there l.. ,,F Shamrock l.; not only vast improve ment over all previous challengers, but marked copy of the graceful lines that have made the American built yacht the wonder of the world and have given to her builders d prestige and I renown enjoyed by no other marine architects in the universe.
 AS to originality, or, rather. in tht sticking to old world models. Sham rock II hugs closely to the bowsprii fittings that have obtained since tn, days of the Thistle and made bolder il both Nalkyries. The same deck pur chases for fiattening in sheets. tn, same turnbuckles for setting up tn, standing rigging. are used in the chal lenger as in the first racing yacht de signed by Watson, and they have no been improved upon in any country. The new Upton boat is steered by { tiller. The designer believes better ana quicker results can be obtained iron the use of the long stick than by tn, wheel. no matter how carefully tn, wheel may be geared. It was not pos sible yesterday to judge accurately how we'll the craft was balanced. but iron | the testimony of the men aboard sht rode as evenly as a shuttle in n loom | Taken all in all. Sir Thomas has sen | forth a fighter that, judged before tn | battle. is the strongest. the handsomes and the most formidable that has up t' | this time entered the lists to struggl | for the trophy that American shipbuild | CTS have held for half century a proof of their supremacy.