The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1903-08-20
SWIFT YACHTS
TO RACE TODAY
Reliance and Shamrock Ill
Ready for the First
Race
SOME THING OF TIE REGATTA
How the Two Boats Are to Sail Over
the Course and What Sails They
Are to Garry Under Certain
Weather Conditions.

AAS AIOi iulIlS dDOul IL D CLOCK or
very near that hour. the Reliance, the
American yacht and the cup defender
representing the New York Yacht club
and Shamrock III, the challenger rep
resenting the Royal Ulster Yacht club,
will come to the line for the word in
the series of five races for the Ameri-
can cup
The reaces will be sailed on Thurs
days, Saturdays and Tuesdays until
one of the boats has three victories to
3 its credit
The first race will be fifteen miles
to the windward or leeward and the
second over a triangular course ten
miles each. In the second of five ra-
ces the first. third. and fifth races are
to be to windward or leeward and the
second and fourth over the triangular
course. The race must be sailed in
five and a half hours or it is no race
To those who will witness the race
the start will be full of interest Ac-
cording to the conditions governing
these International races preparatory
signal is made. and ten minutes later
the signal to start is hoisted During
the interval between the two signals
each skipper is trying to place his
yacht so as when the start is made
he is in the windward position that is,
nearer the direction from which. the
4 wind blows
WfieI! tse sstarting slglnal lis lis made
two ninlites are allowed in which the
yachts may cross the line as if they
start during that interval their actual
time Of crossing the line is taken by
Sthe regettiai committee. The yacht
That fails to get over the line within
the prescribed two minutes has the ad-
ditional time it takes counted as a
handicap.
At the finish of the race the re-
satta committee again takes the time
of each yacht as it crosses the line
and, this. with the time which it
crossed theline at the start, gives the
data from which the actual time It
took it to make the course is made
out
BY a set of rules based upon scien-
tific calculations each yacht is meas
ured and the largest yacht has to allow
an estimated time allowance to the
smaller one in order to make them
race on even terms This time allow.
ance for the course in this case thirty
miles, is subtracted from the actual
time the smaller boat has made over
the course, which gives the corrected
time the larger boat must beat to win
the race.
a race to the windward, such as
the first one Will be, means that the
yachts are to 90 aginst the wind
for fifteen miles and then come home
with the wind behind them 1t is
necessary in sailing against the wind
to take a zig gag course. In the case
OF ninety footers, such as the Reliance
and Shamrock III, a detection OF % IL
degrees from a line parallel with tbs
wind can be sailed This is termed
lacking. The boat that defects the
Least in sailing into the eyes of the
wind is said to outpoint the other.
A yacht is on the sarboard tack
when the wind Is coming over rigni
side, looking forward, The angle Vi
difference between the TWO tacks Is
called by sailors eight points, or i.
degrees, because that number mulul
Piled by makes $50, the number ol
degrees i'll the circumference OF cir
Gle. To sail fifteen miles TO wlndwart
yacht VIII really sail about 20 miif9s
When going 10 windward small heat
sails are carried In a tresh breezt
a baby JiDtopsalI will he carried; Il
d very suong wind there will probably
be no jiDlopsail and III Ilght breez'
a large one called a balloon Jubtopsal
Will be carried.
"A in moderate a club topsail is car
ii ried, but when it Dlws nara only ;
Il working or gaiftopsail is set. Th
Sf drst can be distinguished because lac
# ed 10 two long spars above the mas
and the second is attached to gan
II which does not extend above the mast
After rounding tHe outer windwar
mark tbe mainsail viii be swung oi
TO one side of The yacht and a spin
naker set on The other side OF III
yacht,
The spinnaker is a sail which col