The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1913-09-26
DEFENDING THE
AMERICAS CUP
SyndIcatss Completed to Fl.
nance Building Of Yachts.
HERRESH0FF IS EMPLOYED.

hERREShOFF IS EMPLOYED,
Veteran Rhode island Ship Maker to
Erect Two Contestants For Honor Of
Meeting Liptons Shamrock ~.
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 syndicates
that have been tentatively arranged
will be completed and work on the
building Of the yachts begin. At
H~erreshof's two defenders are to be
built. Captain Nat Herresh0f at first
wished to build only one. but he has
been prevailed upon to undertake two
yachts. One will be for a syndicate Of
members Of the New York Yacht club
and the other for another small syn-
dicate headed by G. M. Pynchon.
William Gardner has designed a cup
defender, and l" 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
dictate Of eastern yachtsmen and has
so far been fairly successful. but be-
yond remarking that there will in all
probability be a Boston defender in
the trial races MI. Swazey does not
care to say anything.
1t is certain that this yacht, II built,
will not be designed by a syndicate Of
four designers. That idea was pr0mot-
ed by a prominent member Of the East
ern Yacht club Of Marblehead. Mass.
and the designers selected vert George
Owen. Startling Burgess. John Alden
and B. B. Crowninshield. 1t would be
some undertaking to get four men ina
val architects) to agree on a design, and
one yachtsman~ recently remarked. 1.-THE
design might possibly be ready by the
time the first race was sailed. but they
never would agree on construction"
Limited to se%venty-fve 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 a 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 a large
boat would have any advantage owe
a smaller mi It would have to allow
time. and in the usual weather condi-
tons Of the American yachting season.
It Is not often that - big powered yacht
a save its time over a. smaller one.
This has been sI,cwn many times this
year. In the runs Of the New York
Yacht club the thirty fOoters often de-
feated the larger yachts.
The conditions give designers lots of
latitude. According to the measure
ment rule. length is measured. but this
length Is taken in such a way as to
limit overhangs. and should that length
be grenter than the rule allows the ex-
cess il penalized. Draft is limited to
Is per cent Of the load water line plus
LIS. SO that the limit Of draft for a
yacht seventy-five feet on the water
line is 13. Is feet. Any exces is added
to length. Then to find the rating aft
er the length has been determined:
length is multiplied by the square root
Of the sail area. and this product Ia
divided by the cube root Of the dis
placement,
AZ to Displacement.
The larger the displacement conse-
quently the larger the sail area that
can be carried. and the designer. de-
cides just how big u yacht he wants to
build. making its form az easy rs pos-
sible. and then figures out the driving
power. In home races each new yacht
has to rate ut what ia termed the top
Of the class. A yacht seventy-hve feet
on the water line will rate in the class
between sixty-five and ~seventy-six. rat
ing. The designer consequently makes
1t rate as nearly as possible seventy
six. but in the international races this
rule does 0 apply. and the challenger
and defenders do not rate In any par
ticular class. The designer al put on
all the sail he thinks the hull can carry.
and 1t is measured and the yacht rated
| for time allowance.
It has been figured that the average
defender will measure about l02 feet
over all. IA feet draft and spread 7.iO0.
square feet Of canvas. II several are
built these figures will vary. and the
battle will be one not only Of handling.
az In the n design classes. bpt IN
model and sail carried.
Boston Rslsasss Veteran seymour.