The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-07-01
EXPERIMENTING OYER
REAL RACES LOOM UP
Cochran and PynchOn Agree to
Call Off TO-mOrrOw's Brush,
Using Time for Fitting.
CHANGES IN BOTH YACHTS
Nanitic Will Have New Spars,
Defiance More SaiIs-Crew
Of ResOlute Best.
CHANGES IN BOTH YACHTS

The cup defenders have finished their
preliminary or experimental trials and
now will prepare for the read trials.
which begin of Newport next Tuesday.
The Vanitie and Defiance were to have
raced tomorrow on Glen Cove In the
regatta OF the New York Yacdt Club, but
yesterday morning Alexander $. Cochran
and q. NJ. Pynchon had a conference and
agreed to call the race Off. as they want
all the time possible to get their yachts
In shape for the Newport race. There
are eleven OF these races in the first
series and the work will he strenuous. as
the yachts race every day.
The Vanltle and DEFIANCE were hauled
out yesterday afternoon at Jacobs yard
and will DO cleaned and FURNISHED. only
few minor changes are to be made on
these yachts at present. The Nanitie is
In good shape now and will continue to
improve. She will have some new light
spars. which will be used off Newport,
and some other little details g. refinement
OF sail plan will be made.
The Defiance will be altered In that
when she comes out next she will carry
a jib topsail and will set balloon jb
topsail and spinnaker at the truck in
stead of at the mast head as she has
done. This will increase her rating con-
siderably and reduce her time allowance
from minute and half TO two INMATES.
but with the extra canvas which she Will
carry when sailing Off the wind she will
more than make UP for what she loses
in an allowance The yachts weak points
have been running and reaching and she
has lost considerable because she has
such "A small set OF light sails
The tWo ynrhta will Ia iaunphan nv,
Saturday and will start for Newport on
sunday. They will arrive there in time
20 have some sailing on Monday ~ the
weather Is fair.
iachtsmen who have studied tho rela-
tive performances OF the Vanitie and
Resolutc are agreed generally that II the
two We're equally well sailed there IL very
little to choose between the two Harry
L. Maxwell who Is one of tn" best OF
the amateurs In these waters thinks that
the successes OF the Resolute are due
more 10 the way she has been handled
than to any extra speed In the yacht.
Talking OF the two yachts while Toe
Nanitio and Defiance were racing on
Monday Mr.. Maxwell said; III the crew
OF the Resolutc were put on board the
Nanitie. that H.. the amateur crew. the
Nanitie would win races just as the
Rcsolute has on the Sound. There Is a
perfect organization on the Resolute and
the amateurs there think quickly and act
quickly. In every race the Resoluto has
won it has been handling that has sue
ceeded. Seconds lost on tacks. slowness
In trimming down sails and being bluffed
into doing the wrong thing have
amounted to minutes over the course In
favor Of the ResUlutc. ! would Ike "a
see good organization on the Nanitie
and then the races would be much more
interesting and the difference between the
two yachts would be very small
yachtsman close In the councils OF
the New York Yacht club commenting
on the two yachts yesterday said III
the Nanite should win every race from
now on with her present equipment
don't think the cup committee would se-
lect her as the defender OF the America :
cup. The defender OF the cup must not
only be "A fast, reliable yacht but must
he well handled and have men OH board
who are equal to any emergency. They
have thos, men on the Resolute. The
/ quarter deck crew. the amateurs, are
some of the best sailors in this coun-
/ try. They have the manager, Robert w
/ Emmons "a the hcmsman Charles
! Francis Adams I'd: the navigator
George T.. Nichols the timer, George A
| Cormack and John Parkinson, who II
another expert. and these men work like
! "A machine. 1t was such an organization
under G. Oliver Iselin and once under i.
/ D. Morgan that kept the cup safe in th'
! last Ave series OF races. What the Nani-
tie needs IL "A capable amateur who VII
select an expert amateur crew to help
! The Reliance In her last race had Il
sail home In the fog II was so thicl
that nothing could be seen and yet sh'
fetched in close To the llghtship aud th'
Shamrock III. has not found tho light
ship yet IL is fine of Mr Cochran e
build and run the Nanitie and her wori
is helping the Resolutc very much but !
MIR. cochran would look after few lii
tic things he might improve his owl
Yacht and possibly so much so that sh
would he the defender There are man!
good amateurs EN-CommOdore Il. II
Morgan was on tn Nanitie I'm one rae
and ne il very clever sailor, Addison
q. Hanan and Harry l.. Maxwell ar
two others who would give Mr.. Adam
some fine fights in the races to come
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