The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-02
NEW PERPETUAL
.CUP. CHALLENGER
TO BE LAUNCHED
Racing Craft Built by COrin-
8 thians Takes the First
Plunge at Harbor View
BOAT OF NOVEL DESIGN
Belyedere Bridge Will Be
Raised Sunday to Permit
Yachts to Enter the Cove


Al Harbor View this afternoon the
2 boat built by the corinthian Yacht club
. 20 challenge for the San Francisco
Perpetual cup. now held by the San
waters Of the bay
She is remarkable boat OF a type
never before seen in these waters. She
was designed by w. Sterling Burgess,
the welI-known Boston designer, and
has been constructed by Frank Stone
in his yard on North Beach. The lead
I ing members OF the CoriRthian Yacht
Club felt that il would be almost use
less to try TO beat w. C. Morrow's
sloop Challenger with a boat of the
same type and so decided to make a
. radical departure.
The new challenger, TO be named
"Cerinthian.' has an over all measure
nent OF So feet 6 inches and a water
! line length of only "a feet. She has. IA
feet beam and draws only two feet of
. water. She has enormous -0verhangs fore
and aft and an almost fiat floor AS it is
difficult in a. fiat-hoored, shallow craft
to get the requisite degree of strength
which curved lines supply, the Corin-
= THAN is held: together by a steel truss
running inside from end to end. This
steel. truss was made in. the East and
it was the delay cOnsequene on strikes
among the steel-workers that pre-
vented the yacht. from being compIet-
ed soon enough to challenge for the
. cup last year. Whereas the Chal-
: .lenger is a fin-keel boat, the Corin-
-thian. is provided with a centerboard.
The water line of'the Challenger is the
same as that Of the Corinthian, "a
feet. but the Corinthians over all
= length is IA feet s inches greater. The
GhalIenger's beam is 9. feet, as against
= the IA feet Of the Corinthian.
:, The. Challenger has a short, stubby
: bowsprit while the Corinthian has
none at ALL her jib-stay being two feet
-.inboard, so that, there is space enough
= o. walk all around the bow. On ac-
count Of her great beam there'is an
abundance OF deck room fore and aft.
The mast is hollow and all, the spars
: were obtained in the East. The cabin
has two companiOnways leading into
= II. one on each sihe of the house
After the yacht is launched the rig
ging will be completed rapidly and
the boat will be ready for her trial
spin. There Will be abundance Of time
10 tune her UP for the struggle with
the Challenger, which viii be the more
interesting. as a contest between boats
ernbodying almost opposite ideas OF
& the construction Of craft intended for
speed and TO get as big a boat as pos
bile for the smallest measurement
; or course. such. a boat as the Corin-
THAN is a freak, a racing machine, but
= 50 are all the craft designed nowadays
!: for racing and for trophy winning
only.
,. The yachtsnen in the southern
waters OF the bay are looking forward
To- a. lively season. The South Bay
~ acht. Club has larger number Of
. members than eyer before and has a..
Me1f-aDpointed. clubhouse at A1viso
The, opening of the season will take
:. place. on. Sunday April "a, on which
day the san Francisco feet makes sail
FOR the FIRST icruise of 1904. The South
p Bay. yacla5smer: will hold. a clambake
and. high jinks. at the clubhouse. be-
=. ginning at IL a. nj. The other events
on the: seasons: schedule are as fol-
. lows: -: -
tsuno&N: May s-CrulSc IN squadron 10 DHm-
Ia IRON Point: -begignng at 9:15 a. m.
p SATURDAY: Sunday and. Monday. MAY IS %
and ssO-cruise to San Francisco. starting at
1s1indaxs June i2--Regstta for. the thirty
to2ot::olsss. starting ar 1 p m. i
s!llaay: JlRe 2s.-crpise' to RsvenswoOd.
:: l'qesdets :lsrie 2s-Dance at CLUB house. be-
:. 4 s6tufdss: spnday and Monday. july ?: 2 /
and :.s-I.sdies overnight cruise to Redwood
CITY. starting at 2 - D. m on Saturday
. Suncay. Jelly lo-Regatta for schooners. for
TIN. SonnilIsen Cup. starting at 1890 y. m.
sunday July; .o4-Ladies day cruise TO the
=. Sunday August 7--Regatra for fifteen foot
= e!sss starting az - 80 D. m.
.sunday. August ,l4-Regstta for. the Doerr
Cup; starting at 1870 p. m.
:: Saturday and Sunday. August go and 21-
g.5ernght' cruise. starting at e;45 p. on
= sunday. Angus. 2s-l.adies dsy clambsk.
e. .clsb house at u noon
Sunday: September Cruise down the bay
starting az s:<5 .. m.
Sunday September ls-Crpise to Durha rtou
Point starting At 9;l5 a. m.
SUNDAY October Ladies day. afternoon
sail. starting. at u noon.
Sunday. October 1e-cr71ise 10 Redwood city:
sunday. October 2S-Atternoon sail starting
!. SUNDAY. october .so-closing dsy barb.cr.
and high .jinls AZ club house.
the bridge az BelTedere viii he
raised -to-morrow at noon to permit
the yachts that have been laid up in
the lagoon during the winter to come
out into the open waters of Tiburon