The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-05-20

experience on board racing yachts.
 This is not the first time that Cap
 tain Gautesen has shipped on Nan1-
 tie Back in 1915, when Commo-
 dore Cornelius Vanderbilt had the
 yacht under charter, he was her first
 mate At that time, Vanitie was
 commanded by Captain Chris. Chris
 tiansen, Commodore Vanderbilts sail
 ing master who is the professional
 skipper of Reso1ute. Later, Captain
 Gautesen was engaged by Rear Com
 modore Nichols as the sailing master
 of the 1atter's 50 footer Carolina He
 did such excellent work on Carolina
 that it was only natural that he
 should be Rear Commodore Nichols selection for the cup boat.
 Like Vanitie, the other candidate for the honor of defending the Americas Cup was built in 1914. She
 was designed by Nat Hereshoff and built by the Hereshoffs at their Bris- toI yards in 1914. Her general
 dimentfons are 106 feet, inches over all; 75 feet the waterline; 21 feet 3 inches extreme breadth and about 12 feet draft. Although the same length on the waterfine, Resolute is smaller than Vanitie and so during the trial races of 1914, received con- siderable time. Built by Syndicate.
 Resolute was built by a syndicate of members of the New York Yacht club. The syndicate was headed by Henry Walters, erstwhile commodore of the club; with Arthur Curtiss James, Frederick G. Bourne, Cornelius | Vanderbilt, George F. Baker, Jr., and J. P. Morgan as the other mem bers All have flown the senior flag of the club. With the exception of ! Frederick G. Bourne, the members of ! the syndicate are all alive and deeply 1 interested in the defense of the 1 trophy.
 1 The cup situation, insofar as the New York Yacht club is concerned, is 1 most unusual this year. The syndi- | cate that built Resolute is practically 1 the "cup committee' of the organfza- | tion, which also is in control of Vani- 1 tie Again, Rear Commodore Mich oIs in 1914, was a member of the af- | terguard on Resolute and probably
 would be there today, had not Vani- l tie been turned over to the club.
 i The '.interfocked direcborate'' ex- plains why the new sails for Vanftie came from the Herreshoffs sail loft and why Rear Commodore Nichols and Captain Robert w. EnnBons, End of Boston, managing director of Res ol1te, have been in continual com
 
 Each has helped the other place his
 respective craft in commission. The
 reason is self evident. The New
 York Yacht club is playing no favor. ties in its defense of the trophy. Int
 yachting brains of the club are no trying to make either ResolIrte bea vanitfe or vanitie beat Reso1ute They are out to make either Vanfh' or Reso1ute beat Shamrock " ane
 l h@Dy
 working to get much as posstbl' out of each yacht
 To IigIten Craft.
 t With changes being made in Vani tie to tighten the craft, it was natur al that Designer HerreShof should make a few in the Bristol craft. Thes principally have been centered in tn racing rig. Changes have bee1
 made in the tophamper of the craft
 on the basis of reducing weight abov F ! deck, so as to bring the yacht to new line of hotation. in the hope that a shorter wateriine will drav - more time from opponents. It ]. said that about 300 pounds have beel removed from the tophamper of tn < craft The new Resolute mast. witt = it's a1uminite gaff, is considered un - matched in strength and 1ightness f The changes have made ResoIut l ride a little higher out of the wate
 1 than in 1914. In her trfa1s9 to date l she seems to have gained by the al S terations in running before the wind = In addition to Captain Ennrnont = there will be on board the Bristc p yacht, Charles Francis Adams, 2n6 h of Boston, who will hold the vince = George A. Cornnacl1, secretary of tn :. l New York Yacht Club, and Jof s Parkinson. All served as member d of the afterguard in 1914. No on s has as yet been selected to take tn l. place of Rear Commodore Nicfrol. t Captain Christiansen also served 0 f the craft in 1914.
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