Waterbury Democrat., 1901-03-28
WITH THE BOATS.
Companion of the Two Boats That
 Will Defend the Cup.


 Will Defend the Cup. Captain William Berry, who re- gently came East, yesterday gave his impressions of the two boats now building for the defense of the Amer- ca'S cup.
 IT the Independence can't beat the new Herreshotf creation, in which the yachtsmen of the world are interest ed" said he, 'she will at least give the Bristol craft such q close race that everyone will be very much surprised have seen all of the boats that have raced for the America's cup, and 1 be- lieve now that Crowninshield has sue ceeded in the Independence in design ing a boat that can outsail the famous Columbia on every point of the breeze TO do this she must be q good one, and HerreshOff has his work cut out for him from the outset, for she must be minutes faster or she is beaten before she starts with the Lawson boat. A great many critics have found fault, and apparently justly, with the long flat floor in Crowninshields boat, and they say she will pound in a seaway, especially while going to windward. If that is the correct theory it should have stopped the smaller yachts that he turned out last season, and which defeated every boat they raced against. In the new boat he has placed on her a low bridge that is carried well for ward and aft, and when the wind is strong enough to kick up any kind of a sea she will sail on this, so that the tiatness of her floor forward will dis appear, and thus the pounding that is predicted by the critics will be les Sened, if not done away with entirely. This: bilge will also enable her to carry an immense amount of sail
 ''As to construction. she is as well built and as lightly as the other boat. Her mast will be q curios-,y to many. for it looks like big pole mast. The lower part will be a hollow wooden spar, while the topmast will be of steel. This will be set up on the end of the other and joined like a fishing rod by an immense steel ferule. They cannot house it, as HerreshoH has patent on the telescopinG arrangement, and no other plan is available or feaS- ible, but it will be so light that it is thought that no matter how stun the breeze or how closely the boat is reefed. she will be able to carry it to windward all standing without ditfi- culty.
 The Herreshoff craft will be the speediest boat that has ever been turned out from the Bristol yards without a doubt, but 1 believe from what is known of both boats that Crowninshield has reached his dream of years and surpassed HerreshoH Ill his form of construction"
 Boston, Mar 2S.-The Independence is now fast taking form. Unlike most yacht construction, where the outside plates are first put in position and the deck plates and fittings put ill after ward. the work on this craft is going ahead on all parts of the boat at once. Ril]man has blue prints of the spar plan. All the wire rigging and some. of the running rigging are at his shop.
 It may not be necessary to cast an other balance rudder frame for the Independence. The recent test was made of a piece that was cut rom tho co sting now at the Atlantic works, and was unsatisfactory. Another piece will be cut from the casting ana q second test made.