The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1913-10-09
Defending The
AMERICAS CUP
SyndiCates Completed to FL
nance Building Of Yachts. !.
IiIs8s3 ID
'HERRESHOFF is EMPLOYED.

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Veteran Rhode Island Ship Maker to
81 Erect Two Contestants For Honor of
Meeting Liptons Shamrock w.
Challenger Limited to Seventy five
Feet on Water Line.
Now that the conditions to govern
the Americas cup have been agreed
on by the challenging and defending
clubs preparations for the defense OF
the cup will proceed. The syndicutes
that have been tentatively arranged
will be completed and work on the
building of the yachts begin. At
Herreshoff'S two defenders are to be
built Captain Nat HerreShof at first |
wished to build only one, but he has /
been prevailed upon to undertake two |
yachts. One will be for Il syndicate Of |
members of the New York Yacht club |
and the other for another small syn
dictate headed by G. NJ. Pynchon.
William Gardner has designed a cup
defender, and it is very probable that
this will be built by Wood at City Is
land. n. Y. A. Loring SwaZey of Bos-
ton has been working to form a syn
/ d1C'IIc VI ctlSiSii S<tNALoiliNAl anu mas
so far been fairly successful, but be-
/ yond remarking that there will in all
/ probability be Boston defender in
the trial races Mr.. Swazey does not
/ care to say anything.
1t is certain that this yacht, If built.
/ will not be designed by n syndicate of
four designers. That idea was promot-
ed by Il prominent member Of the East
! ern Yacht club of Marblehead. Mass,
and the designers selected were George
Owen. Startling Burgess, John Alden
and r. B. Crowninshield. 1t would he
some undertaking to get four men ina
val architects to agree on design. and
one yachtsman recently remarked. The
design might possibly be ready by the
time the first race was sailed. but they
never would agree on construction"
\ Limited to Seventy five Feet.
The challenger is limited to seventy
five feet on the water line. The de-
fender is not limited, and while the
New York Yacht club declined to sat
isfy Sir Thomas Upton that the de-
fender would be about the same size
as the challenger. that club will not
take advantage of the deed of gift. but
will build defender about the same
size as the challenger.
1t is a disputed question with naval
architects whether under the present
rules and time allowance scale Il large
boat would have any advantage over
. q smaller one. 1t would have to allow
t time, and in the usual weather condi-
: tons of the American yachting season.
it is not often that big powered yacht
= can save it's time over a smaller one.
. This has been shown many times this
l year. In the runs of the New York
= Yacht club the thirty footers often de
f. feated the larger yachts.
l. The conditions give designers lots of
1 latitude. According to the measure
{ ment rule. length is measured. but this
= length is taken in such way as to
$ limit overhangs. and should that length
be greater than the rule allows the ex-
:. cess is penaliZed. Draft is limited to
t 1G per cent of the load water line plus
II 10. so that the limit of draft for a
It yacht seventy-fye feet on the water
e line is 1875 feet. Any excess is added
1t TO length. Then to find the rating aft
tI Tie ieISlu HAS Decn ueISEiHlIeu
u length IS multiplied by the square root
II of the sail area. and this product is
e divided by the cube root of the dis
placement
AS to Displacement.
The larger the displacement conse
quently the larger the sail area tha
j. can be carried, and the designer de
cides just how big a yacht he wants t.
n build, making its form as easy rs pos
o. sih!e. and then figures out the drivin:
id power. In home races each new zach
to has to rate 1T what is termed the toI
Il of the class. A yacht seyenty-five fee
on the water line will rate in the elias
he between siXty-tiye and seventy-siX rat
O. ing The designer consequently make
of it rate as nearly as possible seventy
he six. but in the international races thi
ut rule does not apply, and the challenge
rs and defenders do not rate in any PAL
ne ticular class. The designer can put o
w all the sail he thinks the hull can carry
he and it is measured and the yacht rate
to for time allowance.
ed IT. has been figured that the averag
full defender will measure about 1O2 fee
of over all. II feet draft and spread 40
nE square feet of canvas. If several az