AMERICA CUP.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXVII, Issue 10966, 4 June 1903, Page 5

AMERICA CUP.

The New pefendei*.

A description of the challenger has already been published, but so far little has been .made known concerning v the defender. * . ' * The Reliance when she spreads her wings, will have nearly 16,000 squire feet of canvas in her working sails, 'which will be considerably more than any 90-footer ever built has spread. Some yachtsmen who saw the boat in the Herreshoff . shppa ■ 011 tlie day of the launching said that she should be a -very fast boat when heeled, So that she would be at her .worst, in » iieht'wind and' in a seaway^ -. — - j- ' mast of' the Reliance is 160 ft over I all. 'The"lowe* jnnet, which is of/^e^ > - dn*'26i»v -in* dwmeter, is lisrt in iengt^ and about 7ft of tins is bnrieff^ $*»? '.step. Tliis will- make the.,^qtal ll li^igni' from deck to truck about l'sßft.' The tru^k ■ of the Independence was ljOjft^Jbove the^^ ■ jiock, andi'this .-was about t^p4wt?ni^lifi'? r " ..than thet truck v of the- Constitution. , .The Columbia is ten feet shorter. .. • ■ < The boom of the Reliance is 114 ft in length, Constitution's is 109ft,,that <?f the . Independent • 109.5 ft, and that of the Columbia 107 ft. Prom the foreside of the mast ; to the end of the bowsprit the Reliance will measure about 78ft. the Constitution measures." 7>.85ft., tlie Cblumbiiy 7J.86ft., and the Independence measured 74.89 ft. For measurement, the distance is taken from, end to ,end of the boom \o the end of* the bowpprifc, or rather, -to- a point midway between the jibs,tay and the jib topsail stay, and on thellehant?e -tbi» will be about 194 ft. ..Tlie, base Hue of the, ptber. three modern ninety-footers was: — • Independence 186.39 ft, Constitution 186.85 f-t, Columbia 182.86 ft. The gaff of the ' Reliance will measure about 68ft. .This epar is taxed for' all its length in,, excess of 80 peVcent of the topmast, but jusjb what the length of that spar will b>. -will hot be known until thp measurer puta'liii? tape over the yacht. It is fair, to assanrn that the excess will' be about. 12ft., 'an.4 , this is added to the base line. In measuring the sail -plan tlte-"ftUtap«e.'fw>Kji i '.tM Upper side of the bogm to the topsail ,hajliard blbok is taken, and on. the Jtelisiu^ft this should be .about 135.5 ft.* The hcisrh.i ' is -multiplied >by the bnse" li"ne,- and' tl*<? flg»re« rtvcti - hrre -will - tobW, ■ **«• " **&i , spread 135.5 ft,. The . height i« : multit»l3«4 by the base" line., pnd t lhe figiiTPS jriyipiv - here will make - tlie I 'saif spr?ad^,,ls;B^o pqrn-re . 'fe,et. Tlte. 'Constitrttlrtn spr^jjsl H290, the. Columbia 13^211 and, the Twhft pendeuce'- had 13,816. -, • , - ; ; '-.■-' ; , PREPARING FOR THE. BAC'&j ,-*; - ' The. New York Yacht: Club Regstft* Committee last- month announdefl'i^scljie-; jJule 1 of races for Colunibia, C6nsntu^ioY«; i*njl ReliancCr the '• three* 90ftf *yacht»i that i ; wifl .cbm;pete ,for tlie hojipr of -dj&rendin{j ithe .America Cup. . The,- schedule w^n-t'o jbegra with 'a - race over ;the Cflete Cove 'course', on Long Island • Sound', 'on' s •. • ... • ■- ' -• ■ 7 j The contests between, Reliance,. Const't lut-ion, and Columbia will ilien be tr»iu^ , feiired to 'Sandy Ho^k X where, .on" JSlomfl^, June Bth, and Friday,' June 12th, !he^ meet 'over tiitf oceau course.-; -A.'fter»-,'thas-, ithere will be , almost until thp official trials' at Newport/ fiemn^ inrtg oh July- 3rd/ the winner' of which V*U defend the" Cup.' ' 'V .T ' . J •v.\?:;X x- ■ Then the yaohts return td Sandy.^lJpoi, I.nd on August 20£n the lfirst oi thfi'race# for the CupwHlbe sailed.'. '_ ' ,' ... 'J'S