The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-08-28
WESTWARDBOOMING YACHTING
FIR>T EFTEITS az NEU iUHT
rFIT ~ ENGI avn
New schooner CIass Nsy ne Result sue
re-s 90 W.. ssehTah's Deat she~a
mat Berreshsa CaR BuIld sae~ess-
fun, 10 the Earsuean RaIe cup Taik.

- being talked Of n seems q pay that ar
American boat should give N. sport -rch
boom In foreign waters. when az home
building and racing laTg. boats -~ems
To DO IN veVv disspirit,ng condition II "
possible. though. that neat year Msstvard
may race m these waters. and With Queen.
tlmina and possibly q new Yacht the sport
viii boom here The ia"hh"o world in
Its comments on Schooner- says
The new lIerreshon schooner has dem
onsirated thEt the Europeans have been
all at sra IN surprising any particulR r
rule has anything to do With the aupe-
riority oG HeTreshon Yachts In her capt
Nat HsTre~hod has huilt n varht TO the
European rule and has beaten the field
hollow under n saV- 4 veil known Yacht
ing authority
This knocEs from under ~, Euro
p~an critics the prop on which they have
lon. leaned for comfort. the belief that
under European rule Hcrreshon would
md himself on footing Of equality With
European designers AL the While ~ has
been the man. not the rule. that made tho
great Herreshon triumphs m the big sloop
class
In Germany The american schooner
made practically clean sweep Of every
race IN which shs was entered West
Nard has done the saHte thing NJ Cowea
wards hackers that the English designers
had no more business with the Westward
than had the Germans She has made
PROCESSION Of every race
To he sure. there was not feet ~
English yachts on hand worthy oI The
hest traditions Of that old time Yachting
nation, but shsi we're ~ Coves repre-
sented the host England could produce
this season SIR Thomas Iiptons cutter
=
suzanne Germany vas on hand with
the Emperors German de-ign and Ger
man built schooner Meteor " and Herr
knlpp Won Boehens schooner GeTmania.
also German built
ON these ~" vessels The Germans Las
year PINNED 'h.'r hopes 81 future en- T.
n"nc- IA International racine WITH large
Yachts they might prove the 10 r-runn-rs
NJ contestants who would loser Nmeri-
cas- colorS IN friendly combat OF Sandy
lloo> or Newport IN future Vears
Was for these hopes MeSfward had
defear Ell them eight lines out ~ nine in
their own waters ami had mad" 'hs h'st
corrected 'itre N the ninth race in which
sh. had been too heaNily handicapped 20
win
The hAnent Of he Westward per-
formancN to 'he -Uorf ~ill h~ imm"a>1r-
able " will clear he air IN he America
,up business. uoS long neglected
White u show the Rrt N the hardness
Of the American nut hey mus' crack 20
get the up. 1t may also " u 10 no. 'sin
10 hope ~ much show The New Work
Yacht club that - lo~-n' need any such
su'hor 10 ~IndwarI "a helm y retain ne
,up a. - presan; blind adherence % m
obsolete rule
The effect Of he ~uca esse- ut he IVES Nart
on iu'ure races FOR he ,u'ri"n'~ cIp IL
some hing hai . prominent Vaoh' ~mRn
has NGurcd out Ne argues that n will
deter hailengeS 'omihr be- au~e lIerrr-hOH
has shown that he can turn ont winner
under any rule and T. also clears the ayr
on this side hesaus.. " shows that II j. no,
necss=arv 20 hold 10 an oh.o'e'e rrls We
says
1t IL easy 20 imaRine tnc su,h-u' 81
Yachting history loot ms baCA on the p~riod
covered hy the fret ten years al thi- sr'ufN
and trying vainly to hnd -om~ adruuat"
reason for oar determined neHl~ 81 the
= hoonsr RIG The hoon"r has always
held it, popularity IN American ater-
where Il i stlll used very extensively f"r
Mercantile segNics and Germany: hen
The Emperor, gave the two master a
prominenr" Nhi"h u has not hal 10 ~"
British feet for very many vesrs len
wears ago something 81 a revival Of the ris
vas promised, and Fife designed 40 81
three Vessel. we'll al" ulated TO show what
a. hoo1.r might he to tho leis.,reiy and
stately old ShIps ~hich remain With ~ a.
ral"s Of the fleet ~ other DAYS tyen hen
there AS y DISAPPOINTING lark Of NJ linai Ton
20 follow the lead Vhhh va. 49, The un-
settling influence 81 a general chanae 81
rule cam' in then 20 AL the la-i ,hsnce OF
" have be~n too busy EXPERIMENTING
Win the aspiration ~ the Universal rule
- the rasinK utter to have mu' att"ntio on
- spare for vessels of the other rig II -
'rtIe that the trainers OF the rule ma i"
ample ALLOW ance for the Ta"ing int"TorttN
q - n
milton Of the cutter as the ideal THrer and
an almost equally general objection 10
hul'd Tor rag,ns nndrr a ,,ns ai ", S,xp, :
ing the one rig
IT, 'hsreiore. there vss no other reason
20 ~ grateful 30 MIR Cochran for bringing
Westward Ia the-a WAter- ve would still
he Indebted 20 him for the remi nder ~ orded
by IN" VISIT that therr ... p"s-ibi.liles m
worthy NJ greater Consideration than hey
have vet received u = und-ntabls ihAi
on the = ruU ial point Of racing TO Nindw ard.
The q hooner 10 al = serious disadNsntaSe
shen compared With cutter Of anything
area Of sail when this i admitted how
ever. everything thai ian Dc -aId aEains'
the rig ne. been SCI I"rtn ana shm1,tsd
whk may fairly expect to obtain more
and more e,oknition a. time goes on
those wh'h have b9fn -oughi ~ receni
propo.ala for the further deNelopment
Of oliT racing fleet ne diTC ulty OF PRO-
ducIng . large Ta,InR cutter Which would
give adequate ~, ommodation for the
g rev necessary for her proper WORKING and
At rhe same time leave reasonable spare a.
he command of the oVner and his guests
had bes ONE in-istsnt before the last hAnRe
in the rule 81 rating u NaA partially solved
IN IN. alteration but remains matter Tor
some little con ern
The s,hooner brings ~ nearer n salts
factory state 81 matters m ihis respect
There are more sails 10 work and more gea Z
to tend. bat everything - lighter by com
Ia Tiaon The crew may require 10 move
IN lively fashion from one station 10 an
other but fewsT hands can account eTi
GENTLY for all the work and this - a matter
vhirh tolls both In the amount % space
uelrh che owner NAV 'lAim for his own Use
aud in the wages bill. The same breaking
m OF the canvas which tells against the
-n~@. ~ the vessel Ia racing makes her
more readily available for passages and for
cruising u u comparatively seldom that
The modern racing cutter sets her mainaail
except on racing dRys The irysa u IL called
In for everything else and as the trysail
"a art to err on the aide of being small for
average cruising the passages are apt to
draKA little
40 far as -tVard' = own performance
are concerned there - A. little reason FOR
hslittitng them ~ for making the other error
~ putting them m the realm OF the Tniracu-
loua She ~ ~ fine weasel In her own class
as say shamrock - In hers, and ~ addition
10 his she proves what ~ we're all prepa red
he