The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-10-08
LIPfON'S THIRD CHALLENGE
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tNOnNAuuEu LEuAAt &ISL EdEe-J forgetful of the generous treatment ac- corded the Shamrock I. and the Sham rock IT., but the majority Of yachts men are undisguisedls pleased that an- other attempt to vindicate Great Brit aims claim to yachting supremacy is to be made.
 Opinion is divided on the prospects of success. The older school of yachtsmen is generally Respondent and argues that the only chances of British suc- cess lay in the retention of MT. Watson as designer, quoting the Valkyrie III. and the Shamrock IT.. Mir. Watson s last boats, as the only yachts which ever came within measurable distance of success. The opinions of large ma jority of yachtsmen. however, appear to coincide entirely with those of the Clyde yachtsmen, builders and experts, many of whom expressed the view this even ing that Mir. Fife. with all the details and plans of both Shamrocks before him, has a better chance of turning out successful challenger than MT. Wat son had when he started the Shamrock II.
 Mir. Fife has approached the prob lem of producing winner in manner radically different from that employed in the construction of any previous challenger Hitherto the idea dominat- i ing the design was to secure lengt h and power. The Shamrock l. carried this idea to an extreme and the Sham rock III will carry it to the other. The lines and measurements of the 1 Shamrock III. suggest that the first idea has been to get a boat better suited to autumn weather off Sandy Hook. Sta i bility and sail carrying capacity have ] therefore, been made secondary to the production of a hull which can be cas- fly overpowered in fresh breeze, but Messrs. Fife and Watson are both sat isfied to take this risk in order to ob- tain good light weather boat.
 The challenger will be built at the Dennys yard and nickel steel will be employed throughout for her frames plating, deck and principal spars The early start of the Shamrock III. for tht other side will it is considered. give her a considerable advantage over pre- vious attempts, the failures of whicf are attributed to inadequate prepara tion more than anything else. Expert' point out that the Shamrock II. was ad init tedly delicate to tune and was nevel properly tried after refitting. It is evi dently intended that the new boat shal have all the advantage of a thorough testing on both sides of the Atlantic before the races.
 Yachtsmen appear to regard the re turn to plain steel as a sensible decision and one of the most hopeful features o the new challenger. They say tn slight saving in weight resulting iron the use of bronze alloys is more thai offset by the loss of truth in the line of a yacht caused fin the difficulty o working the metals. The Dennys ar expected to turn out steel hull quit as light, probably as strong and cer tainly more reliable than they could they used manganese bronze.
 So far as the drawing office is con cerned. the work on the new challenge is believed to be nearly completed. MI Fife was once heard to say that would be easy to build a boat whic would beat the Shamrock l. by fiftee minutes in thirty miles. MT. Fife undoubtedly confident that his chal lenger will be the swiftest yacht yet at temDted