AMERICA CUP
THE CANADIAN CHALLENGER,
Mew York. September i.
Mr. Boss, challenger for the America Cup. in an interview, said tho people of Canada were enthusiastic about tho challci?.<<er. Ho did not. think it would be difficult to raise tho monoy required to build tho yacht. It was proposed to make a propaganda trip from coast to coast, organising "Maple-leaf Clubs ovemvhoro for raising tho necessary funds. The yacht would be schooner rigged and of the "Fislionnan" type, entirely Canadian in design .and cous-nic-tion, and manned and commanded by Canadian fishermen, and it would bo able to go offshore in any weather. Mr. Ross explained that tho plan to employ Mr. Nicholson (Sir Thomas Lipton's dosigner) had been changed because, be insisted that too much of the work on the challenger should be dene in ling-land.—Aua.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 295, 7 September 1920, Page 5
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138AMERICA CUP Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 295, 7 September 1920, Page 5
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