Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1907-09-04
Az EXCELLEH7 START

That another struggle for the
now tacitly admitted by the New York
Yacht club, the custodians of the
trophy, and it is further conceded that
this coming battle will bring about the
most important change in the con-
struction of oversee challengers and
home defenders that the yachting
world has seen since the fili-keel type
replaced the skimming dish.
Mr. Irving Cox, the well-known de-
signer, neatly summed up the situa-
ton. 1T is recognized" he said, that
race is to be held next year. 1t is
also recognized that it must be sailed
under the new rules of the New York
Yacht. club. This brings Americas
Cup affairs back to the time when the
English, challenging with the Genes
ia, were defeated by the Puritan. That
was in 1885, Year by year there has
been developed since then a type of
racing machine that eventually found
its extreme expression in the Reliance.
Nov, at one stride, when we go
back % years-nOt retrOgreSsiOn,
rather reversion from a racing ma
chine which had reached the limit Of
refnement-a reversiOn from this to
what may be called normal yacht.
The defender, under the new rules,
will compare with the Reliance just
about as the Avenger now compares
with the Humma. The essential differ
ence will be that the new defenders,
after they have served their turn at
defending the cup, will not be relegat-
ed to the scrap heap, but will be able
and comfortable cruisers.
1.-The situation which the custodians
of the cup may soon be called upon to
| face is one far more interesting than
any that has come about in many
years. By this reversion to more
normal type-one made absolutely
| necessary by the new rules-America
relinquishes the point of vantage
| which it held over England for so long
a time. This advantage was in the fact
that we had developed a faster type
on a given water line. Now, having
| run to the extreme in that direction
| we have got to evolve another type
| and one on more normal model
This type, should say, will be long
on the water line, fine-ended, heavy
! displacement, with comparatively
short overhang, and with lofty, but not
excessive sail power.
Zone other important feature. We
| have nothing of this type built. Ever
| since the Puritan-Genesta race our de-
| tenders have always had a trial
horse and by having such craft it has
| been possible to compare the perforsl
| ance of the defender and her trial
mate, and, with an approximate esti
mate of what the challenger is ca
| pable of, this has hitherto given a
more or less accurate line on the ulti
| mate result. But with the reversion
| back to the older type, we have moth
| ing now built that could be raced with
any new defender built under the new
rules for purposes of comparison
Therefore it is quite clear that at
| least Two, and perhaps three, boats
must be contracted for when the chal
lenge comes"
The challenge has not come yet, but
it is we'll understood that Sir Thomas
Upton means to issue one at the end
of the present racing season; also that
his challenge will stipulate that the
race be under the new rules.
Although no canvass of tho New
York Yacht club-custodia,ls Of the
cup-has been made, yet It is quite
certain that defense of the cup under
the present rules will be niore vel
come than one under the old For this
matter of cup keeping, when it's re
tention involves the building of ex