The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1903-04-12
LOOKS
LIKE A WINNER
Americas Cup Defender Was
Launched Yesterday.
MISS lSELlR CHRlSTERS II
COMPARES VERY FAVoRABLX
WITH THE CONSTITUTION.
MISS ISELlN CHRlsTEES IT

Bristol r. T., April With an Ameri-
can eagle at her bow the cup defender
Reliance was launched { the Herreshon
works just before shutdown today.
Five hundred persons stood beside the
glstening underbody Of the yacht when,
at 5.3l O'Clock this afternoon. Miss Cora
lselln, daughter OF c. oliver Iselin, man
aging owner of the boat, broke. with a
silver hammer the traditional bottle OF
champagne saying az the time: u chris
ten thee Reliance and may God bless
thee"
The laurel Wreaths and punches OF
pinks tied with red and black ribbons,
festoOned forward and as the yacht slow
~ drew out of the shop the American
yacht ensign was raised at the STERN
with Mr.. lseliu's private signal amidshlps
and the colors of the New York Yacht
club at the bow.
Three thousand persons in steam yachts.
row boats on the two piers and back on
the street behind the shop greeted the
plunge of the Reliance with lusty cheers,
while a bugler on a tOped0 boat played
THE Star Spangled Banner
Constitution Was Also There.
Among the yachts anchored of the
works vast the Constitution. the unsuc-
cesstul candidate for cup hOnors two
years ago. and this year designed 20 De
one Of the keenest rivals OF the Reliance
The Constitution was gdily bedecked with
flags and as the Reliance lay for Few
moments alongside her old sister some
comparison of the lines of the two boats
could be made To was then seen that the
bow Of the Reliance turns out Of the
water more sharply, that her stern is low
en- and fiatter and that she has triue
less free board. The new boat however,
was soon hauled into the dock, where she
viii be rugged.
Ii is expected that she viii have her
trial spin In about ten days, after Whicn
she viii have thorough trying out, meet
ing both the Constitution and the Column
bia in a series Of thirty-five races In Long
Island sound. OF Sandy Hook and az
Newport Should she prove superior 10
her two rivals she will meet the Shdtn-
rock III in the first of the cup races on
Aug. q.
Departure Over Other Defenders.
The Reliance is a decided departure on
the part of HerreshOm from his other
Cup defenders and Is an excellent cN-
ample of the American ripe fat hoored,
fine keeled boats. She is not such an eN-
IRENE skimming keeled dish as was the
Independence, but she nevertheless re-
sembles the CrOWinshield boat more than
she does any of her predecessors built
here. Her lines are very easy, with few
hard places and a graceful sweeping
curve from the bilges into the garboards.
Her stern ls very nat so that she VIII
though not quite so broad and fiat as
that of the Independence. Is still very
much different from thA bow of either the
Constitution or the Columbia. She has a
long keel but owing 10 her good beam
does not carry so much lead IN the pulh
as the other cup defenders. Her bow to-
ward the end is quite sharp, while her
tanrail measures scarcely eight feet.
Her greatest beam is well up In the
shoulders and Is carried aft many feet.
At the water line forward she Is curved
like the inside Of a saucer. Tt Is believed
that her strongest point of sailing will be
with started sheets ln comparatively
smooth sea. She Is also likely 20 so very
fast down the wind. her long keel hold
ing her well on her course. Her weakest
point viii be on the wind and hattened
sheets. a point on which the Shamrock III
IS said 70 be very fast
The boat with her easy lines and her
tremendous sails spread out over 1900
square feet win be easily driven, as IL
seemed TO be the unanimous opinion of
those yachtsmen who saw her today that
she would prove the fastest vessel ever
built