SHAMROCK IV. LAUNCHED.

Auckland Star, Volume XLV, Issue 125, 27 May 1914, Page 5

SHAMROCK IV. LAUNCHED.

A rAIRWEATHEK CRATT. NOT A HANDSOMX TACHT. i Rcecived S.oO ajn.) LONDON". Mar 16. sir T. Upton'* yacht shamrock IV.. built for the America Cup race. ha? been laiinclied at Cosport. Her length on the watetrline i? 7"ift. and her preatest l>eam 22ft. She is uot a handsome iraft, but her underwater body is described a? Nichol.»on's finest work". It is pxperterl that she will develop niph >poed in li«ht brei-zes, hut will be diffi'mlt to handle in boifterous weather.

T';je drauLrhf of 'ho <-!iallencrer will 1w 14ft i.md iift with tho centreboard.. Thi- will he the rlrst occasion on whi.-h a British yar-htsman has <-ompftPil with a eontroboard lioat for the Anu-rii-a ( up —the blue ribbon of international yaoht ■ in;:— this e'a-.s of boat hari bpon always more favourably looke,! upon b> tin- defenders than the rha!lrn2<T* in r.ie [.a-;. In fact, when the deod of j:ift »a.- iUtrrcd, in October, ISS7, by Mr. . L. as solo surviving owner nf tin- » up. won by the yaoht Ann- ,- rira at. ( owe* on August 22, 1851. and tho N.-w York Yacht" (Tub. an un-alu-r----a.do provi-ioi' wan made to secure fnr tile club tin- privilege of oompelinjr with a coin riboarti yswht in tiir. ev.-nt. of the oup at any future date passing.' out of its hands into the pnssosnion of a foreign club. The r-laUi-e of the deed reads as follows:—"Centn-board or sliding-kcd ve-oels shall alway.- be .illowe.i to eomptrte in any r.ue for thi- flip, and nn restriction nor limitjrion whatever shall be p.a.-ed upon the «.f sur'n centreboard or >lidinir kwl. nor shall the ■entreboard or sliding keel Tie ronsidered a part of the vc-wri for any purpo-es of measurement..'' li v ratiier curious that jon thi.- occasion, when the Uriti.-h reprelspiitali\e is taking advantage of the . ricrht to use a ooutrpboard. the llerres- ' hoff boat, wbioh is an aspirant for the I honour of defending the cup on bi4ia.lt lof the New York Yacht Club, is to be ;i ki-.-l without any centrehoar.l. land thi- has dpi-i'di-d to take a ipcnnU\ for excivs draught.