Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-03-15
Whether Upton viii Receive Per-
mission or Not Is Point Of
Much Speculation,
WILL ARRIVE IN AUGUST
English Sportsman May Also
Bring His 23-Meter Yacht
Across the Big Pond,
n REPARTIoNs for the defense

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going on steadily, and. al
though the dates fixed for the
cup races are still six months away
there is an immense amount of work
TO be done The challenger, Sham
rock ", will be ready for racing in
May, and Sir Thomas Upton is to put
his other yacht, the 23-meter Sham
rock, in commission to be used as a
trial yacht. ard the new challenger
Will be sailed against the older yacht
in actual races and against other
crack yachts in British waters Sir
Thomas plans TO have six weeks rae
ing in home waters, and early in July
the challenger will be dismantled and
then start on her voyage across the
Atlantic. 1t is hoped BY those in
charge of the yacht that she win ar
rive here early in August and then
she will have a month to fit out and
be tried before she will have to be
locked for her final grooming for the
cup races.
Whether Sir Thomas will bring the
23-meter yacht across has not been
decided yet. When Shamrock ii
came after the cup Shamrock I was
in charge of Colonel NELL and was
used as q trial yacht in home and in
American waters. and it Is very prob
able that the older yacht win be
brought here this year to help in the
final tuning up spins of the chal-
lenger in these waters Without
trial yacht il is of little practical use
sailing the challenger except to see
that her spars, rigging and sails are
in shape. With a trial yacht those in
charge are able to determine very
easily where they can make improve
ments in the trim which will increase
the speed of the yacht, and they know
actually what they are doing
Called Shamrock No. 4.
Some complication Is caused by the
names of the Shamrocks Sir Thomas
Upton uses the numerals for those
yachts built to race for the America s
cup, and the yacht coming is No. 4.
The name Shamrock without any nu-
neral has been used on the yacht
built for the 23meter class. which
was built for racing in home waters.
and which is still the fastest in her
Glass; She is an ideal boat for trlal
yacht, because she is fast and her
speed is we'll known under all condi-
tons of wind and weather. She meas
ures about 20 feet on the water line,
and carries much more sail than do
yachts of similar size in these waters,
Sir Thomas Upton, according 10
an interview recently, said he mad
not asked the New York Yacht CLUB
TO grant permission to have the
Shamrock " towed across the ocean.
but that ne intended to do so YerS
shortly 1t is very doubtful whether
the club will grant this permission.
The deed of gift governing the Amer
lea cup says that the challenger
must proceed on her own bottom and
under her own sail TO the place where
the races are to be sailed. When Sir
Thomas first challenged, he had some
misfortune with the Shamrock /.
She lost. her mast in trial race, ana
building new spar caused some de-
lay. In order to expedite the pas
sage across the committee of the
New York Yacht Club allowed the
Shamrock I to be toWed in Gains and
in head winds Ii was stated then
BY the club that this allowance was
not to be taken as establishing prec-
edent. Since then the second and third
Shamrocks were towed a considerable
part of their voyages across the At
lantic.
Towing Saves Much Time.
The only advantage in towing IS
that ii saves time, and, should the
weather on the Atlantic be very light,
the challenger does not have to waste
four or five weeks in crossing, but
towing does not help the yacht at all,
in fact, It hurts the vessel. These
racing yachts are designed and built
to be driven by the pressure Of wind
in their sails, and to put a tow line on
the Yacht fastening It around the
mast and then pulling the yacht by
high powered steam vessel puts the
hull under an unnatural strain and
one for which It was not designed.
This pulling may bend the frames
and the plating so that the form OF
the vessel is very different from what
the designer intended, and conse-
quently It is not able TO sail as fast as
1t should had il kept its original form.
This is taken into consideration Py
the committee Of the New York Yacht
Club. but while no formal eXpressi IN
Of opinion has been made by that
committee, it is thought that II will
not agree 10 the towing but will in
sist on strict Interpretation Of the
rules laid down in the deed 90 gift.
That matter will not be considered
until formal application IS made 10y