A NEW AMERICAN YACHT.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 8664, 5 September 1891, Page 2 (Supplement)

A NEW AMERICAN YACHT.

Yachting circles in New York are greatly excited over the achievements of the Gloriana, the new 46-fbcuttef built by Herreshoff. They regard her as a yacht of a new type, capable of outsailing the fastest yachts of all other models. She has been tried in two races, one with a light wind and a smooth sea, and the other in a strong north-easter and heavy water. She won both so easily that there was no second. In reaching the windward work she is pronounced a wonder without a riv.il. It is acknowledged that the famous centre-board sloops Volunteer and Mayflower cannot approach her. She is a keel boat, not a centre-board, while the water-line of 46 feet has an enormouse overhang of 24 feet, mostly forward. Her most original feature is the bow, which is full and blunt, resembling the head of a shark. The load water-line is carried forward very full without a hollow, being quite convex clean to the stem. Aft it is carried back full, turning in a quick hard turn at the quarter. The fulness of the bow is carried above the water-line, and the frames of the forward overhang are quite rounding. Underneath she is cutaway even more than the Thistle. Mr. HerreshofFs theory is that most of the water displaced coes underneath the boat, not along the sides, and he has made the curves below the water-line as easy as possible. The yacht carries about 4000 feet of canvas.