The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-07-01
BRITISH YACHTSMEN PLEASED
Think HerreshOn Has Reached His Limit
and That Now Is the Time to Challenge.

and That Now Is the Time to Challensp.
English yachtsmcn are very much pleased
with the showing that their yachts have
made against the Herreshof boat Sonya
in the races that have been sailed so far this
season. The Sonya has started four times
In two races she had a solid mast. having
lost her hollow one. and i'm these she was
beaten by the Alaymon. Moyana and Brito-
marte The Maymon Is Fife boat. built
last year and the other two are Mylne boats
the Britomarte being a new one. while Moyana
is two years old With her new hollow spar
the Sonya was beaten by the Moyana in
turn to windward and back. but in her last
race she won from the Maymon and Moyana,
the latter bcirg disabled. Critics on the
other side admit that it is early in the season
TO decide which is the best boat Of the quartet
The Sonya ia not in trim yet, and neither is
the Rritomarte, but they take lots of en-
couragement from the fact that the two
older boats. Maymon and Moyana. have been
successful against the new HerreshoT boat.
Tho Yachting World, just to hand, says
AS a preliminary it may be freely adj
mitted that the time is yet too early to make
any even moderately reliable estimates Of
the comparative abilities of the yachts now
making the racing III the 80 foot class. Natur-
ally there was much interest in the first
meeting of the new Herreshof cutter Sonya
with the Yacht which Mylne designed this
Tiers built one or two yenrs ago to DESIGNS
by Fife and Myre There was an eXpecta-
ton which ran indeed ts contrary 10 an our
would mark out their respective merits in
such a way as would enable us to say, il not
pt Row az the ds Wib Rono
in the class was likely to fall at the close OF
the season. In most other forms OF com.
petltive sport it is necessary only to bring
together to sc, such data as will indicate at
once the rsh!fn wearer Of the he, w wreath
ance of chances that 1t may take the lighting
of whole season to marx up claim to
absolute superorIW,, and it is g common,
through the earlier part of a season wholly
upset in the later fixtures.
tcresting racing by the class in which the
American is &c We; the yacht of outstanding
inGreT but even VIZ 'he seore oe59r gh h
the score was influenced he would be a bold
man who would commit himself to a PROPHECY
close of the season One thing might, how
over, he risked. and thar is the opinion that
So, a. h a rank Et WITH the
epoch-makng craft with which fcrreshoff
has in previous years upset the r al
til" The american yacht, Most Of her sailing so
far has been done under solid wooden ln ,,t
hollow spar which sprung and bnCkled before
even the racing began IT might be r,eckoned
the solid mast could not be great enough 10
cover the whole difference between the form
the yacht has shown and that which would
done, by say. Wenonah or Dakotah. The
Teckonhe may he, right It must, hoWever,
be held in S n ,ha a Of Of
and dclicately balanced machines. every
part having its definite ratio of weight and
strenEth to every, other part. and II is impos-
siblr to saw what la mage nav be done by even
a slight unsettinG Of the balance
at 1,o Se Mth e 81 Ra w naW S nxa ra sr
but in that ii may be said that she failed TO
shGw the form csrscScd Of her heIcg oeatnn
As the matter stands at present therefore, the
score is against the HerreshoT craft. This
scorirS he T@.i Is 'a lot Still 10 he done and
probably much, keen sport to he, witnessed
before it can be confidently said that the
In the meantime however after giving
the Kerrcshoff craft full credit, 70. what she
h h0ne ard ID ,f her he .a o hs
worthy Of. close study by sir Thomas Upton
cherish the ambition Of, throwing down the
glove again to the holders Of the Americas
ain the past whom We have been called upon
to meet a HerreshoF Yacht in international
racing, II has almost invariably happened
Of 80" our i've designers in bis prodnction. some
times the step was n vor;' short one. as in the
columbia Sha mrock y. meeting gencrally
IL was long enough to lea vc Ms seriously out
ola In this instance however. with the
rule before him, a rational, useful, simple
rule. such az is favored by large section Of
knowledge of the type of Yacht which our
designers had built 70 IT, the American de-
gner ha p,odneoa o hoa boM whe INV 10 n s1
advance on the British products. This may
rnean tha the rapid development of the HERE
shoif ideas and or own slower progress ha We
at length reached point of equality. which
is position from which very promising
challepse for the Americas Cup might be
issued