The Washington times., 1903-08-20

old silver trophy. 1t means the develop
ment of the highest type of sailing
boats, and though the racers themselves
find early demolition In a junk pile, the
model lives and is adopted by yacht
builders. The deep sea fishermen of
Gloucester have today the latest design
for their fishing boats. in order 10 make
threatens. The successful cup yacht
furnishes them the model for their
boats.
Reliance is the apotneosis of American
yacht design. She Is the development OF
fifty years of cup racing and months of
thought and days of hard endeavor. by
her designer. Nat Herreshoff. Blow allow
or aloft. gales or in tickle breezes, she
is a fast and consistent craft, and in
her races with Columbia and Constitu-
tion. she has never been led across the
finish line. c. Oliver Iselin, her manag-
ing owner and Charley Barr, her sEp-
per. say she will win, and no one can
know her better than they who have
sailed her.
Reliance is typically a scowboat. The
America, which won the cup off Cowes
on August %. 1851, when there was
''No second, your majesty had a thin
wedges shaped, vertical bow. Long
strides were made, and in 1892 Herreshoff
designed the Gloriana, which had a
'spcon-shaped bow and vertical lines.
Gloriana was a great success and the
thin. vertical bow was seen no more.
Columbia. twice defender of the Amer
Of the sDOon bow.
An increase in beam finds the spoon
bow dveloyed in the fiat scow bow of Re-
lance. Sail area has also increased. and
to such an extent that the mainsail OF
Reliance would furnish enough cloth 10
fully equip the Puritan, the defender OF
1885. with full set of sails. The tape
shows height of 1875 feet from the
deck to the peak OF Reliance's biggest
jackyarder. With spinnaker set, over
10000 square feet of canvas is flying IN
the wind. Out of the club topsail OF
Shamrock III, Designer Fife says, could
be made a tent TO shelter 200 men.
Millionaires' Sport.
Cup racing is the sport of millionaires,
and as the two racers made ready for
today's contest they represented an
aggregate expenditure, with all atten-
dant costs. of over $1,000, 600. The syn
dicate which built the Defender has al
ready expended $500. 900. Sir Thomas
Upton has sne2t even more. Counting
the racers down to the gigs. he has a
fleet of thirty-two boats in Sandy Hook
Bay each playing a part IN the attempt
to capture the Cup. A suit of sails for
one of these racing machines costs S16,-
600, and both yachts have half a dozen
full suits, besides numerous extra sails.
Crews must be paid, fed. and clothed
and a hundred and one items of big fig
ures creep into the bills of the yachts
man who is in the Cup-hunting game
| Three elements enter into today's con-
test. the sloops. the shippers. and the
weather
Barr at the Helm
The wheel Of the Reliance will be il
the hands OF Charles Barr. a Scotchman
who has adopted America as his home
| Capt. Bob wringe will be at the whee
| of Shamrock III. II is sufficient to sal
| that they are two of the craftiest sail
| ing shippers in the world and there Ii
little TO choose between them. Charlie,
Barr is given the credit OF saving tht
/ Cup in the contest two years ago by hit
admirable sailing of Columbia agains
| Shamrock II. The element of weather
/ brings with IL the ever present feature
of all sporting contests. luck. The best
boat does not always win all the races
but she will capture the majority o
/ them.
The boatswain whistle on the racing
| tenders did not find a sleepy tar this
morning. and the crews. eager for con.
test. went TO their work with a rur
that augured well for snappy work In
whaleboats they were taken to th>
sloops and staysails and jibs wer'
brought on deck and sent up on tho
stays in stops. Colors were made Cr
| both yachts at O'Clock. The canvas
covers were taken off the mainsails en-,
! there was merry little contest to see
which crew could hoist the big clotl
! first, the Englishmen coming out first
| OrQeIS fly FAST.
Captains Barr and Wringe directed tn,
/ sailmaking. and they seemed to be al
over their charges at once, giving order,
here and there in their characteristic
| snappy way. Reliance kited her larges
club topsail. and 1t stood up above tn,
mainsail. the wonder of all who saw i
| for the first time, because of its size
/ Sir Thomas went aboard Shamrock II
| shortly after s o'clock. and noted tn,
progress of sailmaking. He was highI,
| elated this morning over the additiona
time allowance given him yesterday
when IL was discovered that by changin,
the position of the throat haIliard blocl
on the Shamrock the racing lengths @
| the challenger would be reduced
The change was effected, and new
measurement taken, and Shamrock
| time allowance was found to be one mir
ute and ffty-seven seconds, instead 0
one minute and forty-five seconds.
c. Oliver Iselin, managing owner o
Reliance, went aboard the defender from