Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-19
MORE ABOUT THE YACHTS.
Those Who are in Charge and How
 Yachts are Measured.

Inose Who are in Charge and How
 Yachts are Measured.
 Charley Barr, Scotchman, who has been successfully handling American cup defenders, will be at the wheel of Reliance. c. Oliver Iselin, the manag- ing owner of the defender. and Nat Herreschoff, her designer and builder, will assist Barr with advice and Herre- schoff may spell him occasionally at the helm.
 Robert Wringe, an Engfishman, will be sole sailing master of the challenger. He has had two years experience in American yachts in these waters.
 The regatta committee, which will decide all questions relating to the races, is composed of s. Nicholson Kane, chairman; Newbury D. Lawton and J. M Wales.
 W. McGilldowney will represent the Royal Ulster Yacht club on board Re liance and Robert Bacon will perform a like service for the New York Yacht club on Shamrock III.
 The formula for obtaining the racing length of yacht on which the time allowance is computed is load water line length, plus the square root of the sail area divided by two.
 Load water line length means the distance ina straight line between the points furthest forward and furthest aft, where the hull exclusive of the rudder stock, is intersected by the sur. face of the water. when the yacht is afoat in racing trim, in smooth water. Racing crew must be stationed amid ssxps.
 Sail area is measured in a triangle. The base line extends from the inter section of the bowsprit and the jib- topsail stay to where the clew. or outer lower corner of the mainsail Is made fast to the boom
 A perpedicular is taken along the after side of the mainmast from the under side of the highest halyard block or sheave on the topnnast, to the upper side Of the boom when resting on the saddle or on the lowest part of the gooseneck.
 Then the topmast is measured from the hound of the lower mast to the un- der side of the highest halyard block. Eighty per cent of this length is de- ducted from the extreme length of the gaf and the remainder is added to the base line.
 From these figures the sail area is obtained by multiplying and dividing by two.
 The course will be thirty nautical miles in length, one fifteen knots to windward or 1eeward. according as the breeze blows, and return, the other a triangle. ten knots to the side The water will be the open sea off Sandy Hook.
 Sandy Hook lightship will mark the start and finish of both courses.
 Presun1ing the wind to be from the eastward in the windward and 1eeward course, the regatta committees tug will log off fifteen knots from the lightship straight out to sea and there anchor a stake boat.
 The yachts will cross an maginary line drawn between the lightship and the committee boat at anchor
 The wind being east, they will beat out to the stake boat; that is, they will proceed in a zigzag fashion, first talk ing the wind on one side of their sails and then on the other, tacking.
 aoing around the stake boat, they will ease off sheets and run home with the wind behind them. Here they will set spinakers.
 If the wind be from the west, the opposite point of the compass. the order of sailing will be reversed. They will run before the wind to the stake boat and beat home.
 Should the wind be from the south they will beat down the New Jersey shore and come back free. If it be from the north they will run down the IQrSpv boach and hno4 bO,,oo
 Of course after the yachts have crossed the line, the wind may haul, a habit it has. and the yachts win have to accommodate themselves to the change
 A yacht on the starboard tack. that is, with the wind blowing on the right hand side of her sails. when she is closed hauled, shall have the right of way over the yacht on the opposite or port, tack.
 A yacht close hauled or either tack shall have the right of way over the yacht sailing free. that is, with the wind on the quarter or astern.
 A yacht overriding the other shall not he eo1nDelled to alter her course by the IHffing of her rival. A yacht has overtaken another when she has established an overlap, when she is in srch a position with regard to the overtaken boat that she cannot bear away without fouling her.
 If an overlap has heen established and the yacht to 1eeward is in danger of going ashoSo or fo1rling hnov or c+her obstruction. it is her privilege to hail The yacht to windward and order her about. The windward yacht must then ro to the other tack in order to rive the leeward vacftt fair way. but the leeward yacht must a+t the same time go about on the new tack.