THE AMERICA CUP.
The lust of the tour yachts being* built in preparation for this year's contest for the America Cup will be launched within two or three weeks. Sir Thomas Lipton's challenger, Shamrock IV., has been hidden from public scrutiny with extraordinary care, but a contemporary stntos it i* known that tho boat has frames of aluminium alloy, a mahogany ikiu. and i» (••nti»feoard, and the designer has taken
advantage of this fact. The Americans | are building throe defenders, which ( will be tested in eliminating contests | before the date of the big race. Two' of the yachts are constructed with steel frames, manganese bronze plat-j ing and steel masts, one having ai centre-board, white the third has a steel frame, wooden planking and hol-| low wooden spars. The cost of the J preparations for the race are enor-' mous, but happily the arrangements; on both sides of the Atlantic are in j the hands of millionaires.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 8, 30 April 1914, Page 4
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