The New York herald., 1922-12-24
FAVOR 45 FOOTERS
FOR OCEAN EVENTS
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gust .. with just one day and n half to
spare before the International races.
Last year when the American team OF
6 meter yachts went 90 Cowes to sail
the first series of races for the British
America Cup John ID. Kelley. who. like
Commodore Nutting. has wanderlust.
took the 80 foot waterliDe schooner
Diabesse across the Atlantic to be pres
ent at the races. and last summer Capt.
Kelley arrived back at Oyster Bay with
Diablesse in, time to witness the second
series of races for the same cup.
When the international races between
the American and British meter yachts
are sailed for the Seawanhaka Chal-
lenge Cup and the British America Cup
It is very probable the two yachts that
the Duke of Leinster and Commodore
w. w. Nutting are TO race across the
Atlantic will be in the harbor for their
owners to watch the contests.
Nutting and Kelley do not claim TO be
expert navigators. Each loves to sail
a small yacht. and 1t matters not where
they GO. or course, they always have
some objective. and with little COM
mon sense. some experience in naviga-
ton and sense of location or direction.
not figured out with mathematical pre-
cision, they always arrive.
form the membership OF the Cruising
Club of America. which. like the Cruis-
Ing Club of Great Britain. is made up
II men who love small boat sailing and
who have the same spirit of adventure
rs tho men who sailed on voyages of
discovery In the Fourteenth and Fiji
teenth centuries and whose vessels were
small. unwieldly and queerly rlgged. so
that to-day ono wonders how their skip
1T. . a. ri \
Nutting. the Duke of Leinster. T.
Fleming Day. Kelley and many otners
of these venturesomc spirits feel safer
cn one OF their stsunchly built small
craft than the average transatlantic
voysger does on one OF the big liners.
and possibly more happy. They are so
convinced that the small boat will give
health and enjoyment that they are con
stantly trying to convert others to their
favorite sport and enjoy their fun.
1t Is partly for this reason that Com
modore Nuttng and the Duke OF Leins-
ter are arranging to soil a race across
the Atlantic In boats about thirty-fve
feet in length. and in very short time
now those two venturesome spirits will
be able 10 tell OF the conclusions they
have arrived at from their deliberations
and Of. the plans they viii carry out
preparatory to making their start.
1t is no easy undertaking. There arc
a hundred and one details 10 be attended
to 20 first get the boats built and prop
erly rigRed There must be no weak
ness I'm any part OF tho spars or rigging.
because such weakness might mean dis
astcr. Then having the boats and hav-
ing proved them TO their satisfaction
there is the task of eaupping them not
oaly with everything that may be used
In seama nship and navigation but with
food aud fresh water sufficient 70 last
possible for two months. II would never
do 20 have on board Just sufficient 20
last until the voyage would end under
all favorable conditions but care must
bo taken 10 provide for emergencies
and be able 20 subsist with what n on
board for weeks longer than the voyage
was expected to take. In this work *.
rericnce counts for great deal and
each skipper will draw on his past eN-
perience in equipping and fitting out his
yacht.