LIPTON'S HOBBY.
Perhaps no one except Sir Thomas Lipton himself knows the cost of attempts to lift the America Cup. Some experts,' however, put the co>t of the first two Shamrocks as high as £30.000 apiece, and of the third at £45.000. TliL sum includes the designer's fee. and the price paid for sails, rigging. masts, spars, and stores. A yacht of the type of these modern cup racers carries no less than ninety tons of lead in ordor to stiffen her, and enable her to cany her huge press of sail. Lead is not a cheap metal, and for ballast only tho bill is about £ISOO. Sir Thomas Liptoivs crow for Shamrock 111. cost him, it is said. £IOO p?r day. Our American friends declare that any attempt to win back the cup must cost the challenger £'2oo,ooo—and probably they are not far from the mark in this estimate. One thine: is very certain, that by the time Sir Thomas Lip'ou bis finished with his present attempt he will have spent from first to last at loast three-quarters of a million sterling on his pet ambition.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 11784, 23 August 1916, Page 4
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187LIPTON'S HOBBY. Star (Christchurch), Issue 11784, 23 August 1916, Page 4
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