The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1903-04-17
CUP DEFENDER LAUNCHED
81 cHRISTENTHEER RELIANCE AND
MAY GOD BLESS THEE"
The Words of the Daughter of Man
aging owner lselin as the Latest
Constitution Was Near-Lines of the
Yacht-15,ooo Square Feet Canvas.


Yacht-15,ooo Square Feet Canvas.
Bristol, r. l., April 13.-With an
American eagle at her bow, the cup
defender Reliance was launched at the
herreshon works just before sundown
Saturday.
Five hundred persons stood beside
the glistening underbody of the yacht
when, at 5:31 o'clock, Miss Cora Ise-
lin, daughter of c. Oliver Iselin, man
aging owner of the boat broke, with
silver hammer, the traditional bot
tie OF champagne saying at the time.
Il christen thee Reliance, and may God
bless thee"
The laurel wreaths and punches OF
pinks, tied with red and black ribbons,
the racing colors OF Mr.. Iselin, were
festooned forward, and as the yacht
slowly drew out of the shop the Amer
lean yacht ensign was raised at the
stern, with Mr.. Iselin's private signal
amidships and the colors of the New
York Yacht club at the bow.
Three thousand persons, in steam
yachts, rowboats, on the two piers and
back on the street behind the shop,
greeted the plunge of the Reliance
with lusty cheers, while bugler on a
torpedo boat played The Star Span
gled Banner"
Among the yachts anchored off the
works was the Constitution, the UNI
successful candidate for cup honors
two years ago. and this year designed
to be one of the keenest rivals of the
Reliance.
The Reliance is a decided departure
on the part of Herreshoff from his
other cup defenders, and is an excel
lent example of the American type OF
dat floored, fin keeled boats. She is
not such an extreme Swimming keeled
dish as was the Independence, but she
nevertheless resembles the Crownin-
shield boat more than she does any
of her predecessors built here Her
ines are very easy, with few hard
places, and a graceful, sweeping curve
from the bilges into the garboards.
Her stern is very fiat, so that she will
leave but little wake, while her bow,
although not quite so broad and fiat as
that of the independence, is still very
much different from the bow of either
the Constitution or the Columbia She
has long keel but, owing to her good
beam, does not carry so much lead as
the other cup defenders. Her bow
toward the end is quite sharp, while
ner taffrail measures scarcely eight
feet. At the water line forward she
is curved like the inside of a saucer.
1t is believed that her strongest point
of sailing will be with started sheets
in a comparatively smooth sea. She
is also likely to go very fast down the
wind, her long keel holding her well
on her course. Her weakest point will
be on the wind and tiattened sheets, a
point on which the Shamrock Ill. is
said to be very fast.
The boat, with her easy lines and
her tremendous sails spread out over
$4,000 square feet, viii be easily driv-
en-, as it seemed to De the unanimous
opinion Of those yachtsmen who saw
her today that she would prove the
fastest vessel ever built.
Has Two Fast Rivals.
The Reliance will be tried out as
never a cup boat was before, for the
owner of the Columbia, jealous OF her
magnificent record of two successful