The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-10-19
NEW RULE or MEASUREMENT.
Committee Of y. y. J.. &. TO suggest q
Change At THURSDAYS Meeting.


The NTH general meeting Of the New 70 *
Yacht Club will be held at the clubhouse
next Thursday evening, an d al this meetin Z
| the committee on the new rule OF measure
ment will make its report This Commit;e.
was appointed az the annual meeting with
instructions to Rs the opinions Of the leading
designers all over the world and to try to
frame a rule that would be acceptable to all
and would form the basis OF an Internal ional
rule For several years now yachtsrnen
have been very much troubled with the
measurement question. Several rules have
been suggested and some have been tried
The New York Yacht Club has not tried any
experiments. but other clubs have made sew
cral changes. The first change was from
the so-caled Seawanhaka to the airth rule.
which was q modification of the English
rule. This rule was adopted by all the Sound
clubs. hut was soon dropped and the Sea-
wanhaka rule revived Last winter the
Hyslop rule was adopted by the Larch mont
and Seaw anhaka -Cornthian Yacht clubs
and later by the clubs in the Yacht Racing
Association of Long Island Sound but II was
too complicated to please. and although in
force for year its effects were not fairly
tried
Now the New York Yacht Club Ia to adop,
News rule and the other clubs will follow
suit Tn" new rule already has been sup
mtted TO the Executive Committee of the
Long Island Sound Association and will be
discussed and probably adopted at a meet
ing to be- held on Oct 10
The old S"awanhaka rule. which has been
IN fore" for many wears. taxes water line
length and sail area and gives DIES gncrs plenty
oil scope to design freaks and vessels Of an
unseaworthy type. The formula of the rul.
is the water line length. plus the square root
Of The sail area gives the racing me asureinpnt.
The new rul. takes the displacement OF the
yacht into consideration and sail area il al
lowed in proport ion to the dspla cement.
This. II Is expected. will be the means OF pro-
ducing a more wholesome type of vessel and
instead OF putting premium Oh freaks viii
tax them SO heavily that designers will rot
be onCOurH ged to build them,
The committee. as soon ns II was organized.
sent letters to prominent designers all over
ia" world. ASKING for their opinions OF u rule
which would be satisfactory to az yachtsmrn,
Hrrr"shoN, tho designer of the Nigilpnt, Do
lender, Columbia. Constitution and other fast
yachi;j A.. Cary SMITH design OF the Me-
Muricl aud others William Gardner DIES rneff
o: the Wec'amoc. Nicola, Dorvna and Liri-,
the Independence; ! Beaver Webb, DIES gnrr
OF the Gcnesta. .Galatea and Corsnir, A NJ
Ch""-sDrCmfn CntGn r. Granc designer
VaiESiios, Msteors. BritShanis and Sham 81 .He
rocks and III Arthur Milne OF Glasgow.
Arthur i. Payne OF Southampton, Lintor,
Hon and D. = s9p"T OF London T. + Proud
Of Copenhagen. Charles II. DuGgln OF Canada.
and many others,
tho formula OF when ia as follows:
" multiplied by ~" square, root OF s. A..
divided by i've times the cube root OF u,
equals tue rrolrS measurement.
IL plain i"nsYfse tnis means that, the
sal area divided Toy Ave times the cube root
Of the displacement shall b" tho racing length
Of n" y.Grh, The quantity L. wnIco repre;;
by taking the beam Of Ito watcrline and the
greatest beam and dividing IN" sum OF those
line taken on line in ~ middle ofth' null.
the load wa,"rlin- and di,iaine, the sum ~
1n".G i two , HE W. Ins displsGGncnt Is
parts and taxing ~" hr"aS 81 these cross
scC;lonr rom t'."sr nttHs and ia" load
watcrin" l"ngth the displacement can be-
,Tnere is to hc limitation q drauzlr. aud
should any yacht cNcred t,u' irn'ation such
and must not exceed = yacht H,asurcaunt
OF length nv inore uHn IS r., cent
The committees also vii! ;rcumucul a law
classification, Which j. 80 h" a. ioilow-.
SchoEn"r- 'ln,, \, ia. let ta,ing measure;
feet racing men urCmrnt; tld'- g, not over
No feet aud over a. feet racing n'esuremen;
Class ID. not over iect ana over 81 feet rae
ing measurement; Class l., rot over 81 feet
racing measurement.
Sloops trSI I. over 100 feet racing
mcasrrom' NJ, class 6. not over loo feet aud
over 80 feet racing mo -urcLisnt. Class N not
over ~ feet and over ~ feet racing mea sure
lnent tl'S> J, not Over 90 feet and over 81
feet racing measurement. Class J. not over
~ i"et and over 40 feet racing measurement,
Class Is, not over 10 irct racing ni.a sure
mrnt
Tee commttcc also recommends that tho
time allowance table bo changed Al present
the TING allowance ~ figured on ~ per cont
of the fun tHooreti zeal Allowance hu, This ia
10 lac chan g"d 10 20 per cent Il also l. rec
commended that the rule, IL adopted be- In