Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-06-27
SAILS UPSIDE DOWN.
IN SCHOONER RACE.
Seven Craft in Contest This
Week to Bring Clasps
for Fishermen.
Speoia, Dispatch 20 The Star.

Special Dispatch 70 The Star
Nf.W YORK. June 26.-Seven rae
ing SchUonerS of the New York Yacht
Club. four from New York. two from
boston and one from Philadelphia,
are 10 race Monday and Tuesday in
Block Island Sound off Newport in
Garb certain to make the sword fisher
men and Erpnton Reef light crew
casp. Some OF their sails Will be up
side down.
The event Will mark Il revival of
large schooner racing that marks back
TO the days OF 1851. when the schooner
America captured in English waters
the cup that was named for her and
has become the foremost of all inter
national sporting trophies.
In the sos the racing cutters. with
their single mastS. came to the Tore
and supplHntcl the double sttckerS.
The famous MayfioWcr and Nolun-
trer became the forcrunncrS OF a
, craze for the one towering spar ana
as much canvas as could be draped
from it. Occasionally since then
yachtsmen have rohed their comfort
able cruising SchoonerS win HEnI
sails and raced them; hut not IN TINS
century. either in American waters
a CoWeS or ut kiel have 50 many
real racing two masters some to a
Startin4 line in composition "i NhSeu
speed.
Rcsolutr and Vanitic Converted.
With the change back 10 sGhooners
The America : cup yachts keSolulc
and Nanitic have been converted ana
will bc in AT the gun much changed
looking vessels.
BIT as the schooner is commonly
known. these modern ones VIII ne
strange craft in unconventional Dress:
Instead Of having the ola lore ana ail
rig. with mainSail. f0reSail, topsalIS
and headsails. six of them Will nave
triangular sails. Of the old leg O NUT
ton variety, throughout. and three
will have such sails inverted. They
will spread odd wings.
The rig is an outgrOWth OF the ann
70 make n schooner sail closer INTO
the wind or to point UP with a sioop'
and Of the so-called MarConi mast. the
singh, Spar 50 named for its height.
and from which Il triangular mainsall
has been hung for a few years, DOING
away with Il topsail. It is an expert
ment. pure and simple; it is freak
i'm it's untritM stage. II it wins it is
certain to reVclutiUniZe the SChoohe!
rig
John Anger. famous Norwegian de-
SlGner. VINO came 10 tI44S t'hilbIH ''tt'N
Fan for the G.meter races between
American and Scandinavian boats.
nut. the first touches of the strange
rigs ON John :. Lawrence schooner
Advance. Ills move was the forerun-
ner.
SCho0ncrs Entered in Race.
The schooncrs that will race are
the ReSOlutc. now owned by +. " al
fer clark. Philadelphia banker: Nani-
tie. purchased by II. +. Whitney; II.
6 Vanderhilt's NaGrant. Winthrop W.
Aldrich's Flying Cloud. Charles i.
Tarding'e Wildfire DR.. Seth VI. Mill
kpn's Shawna. and the Advance.
Shawna Will race with the old
saff rig and cluh-topsail. Nanitie.
Advance and Wildtlre Will have
single triangular sails, like Sta%salIS'
~ place Of ordinary foresalis. trl-
angular nainSails and main topmast
staysails. The main topmast stay
sails. in the shape Of parallelograms.
will hang from headStayS htWeen the
trucks of the rasts. They viii MI
IN the gan left by the triangular
foresails and thore vii he several
sizes Of them.
ResoIute. Vagrant and Flying
Cloud will have triangular mainsall!,
tha triangular furesail with inverted
ones. or others INSIDE down, MAKING
n fun square o. the fOresall and trl-
angular fore toHsA.i&
The inverted sails are set on
spirit which i sheeted by wire TO
the mainnast. The fore topsails are
Cling in kites also. They are
sheetcd to the nainmast head. The
designers did not know what TO can
them% The shippers have named
them diapers
Resolute is also rugged to carry
single triangular sail between
maStS with main topnast staysail
like Eanitie This is IN case the
upside down sail proves lmpfactlta
HE. She also has Large KITE thaC
can be set above her inverted tri
angular 1t is called queen sail
six Working Sails.
Under the inverted rig there are
six working sails. all triangular
Two headSails, two staysa1is III the
fore section, mainsail and diaper.
II is believed the advantage of the
n,Ieer dress will be in sailing close
hauled on the wind. What will hap
ren running free off the wind Is
,rohlematical. a guess would he
that the Resolute rig would carry
hest on the wind. Nanitie's better
in reaching off it. and that the old
stvle wing and wing would beat
them all in running free before 1T;
What this change means in san
area may be judged from Nanltie's
canvas AS a sloop her mainmast ana
topmast reached 1875 feet above her
deck. Her present nlainmast, one
long mole. is 7 feet shorter than her
old mast.
Under sloop rig her mainsail con-
tanned $500 square feet of canvas,
and her total spread Of sail was $500.
That. of course. did not include her
balloon jib or spinnaker. AS
schooner her mainsail is $500 square
feet and her total spread 1850 feet:
Resolute's mainsail is 300 feet and
her hotal $500 feet.
II thus Will be seen that almost
half the total sail Of the new rig is
I'm the mainSail, whereas much less
proportion was in the aft canvas OF
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