AMERICA CUP

Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1930, Page 3

AMERICA CUP

| ;f J ! THE DEFENDERS

official tests ,to select a defender in progress. of the prospective defenders ate as follow :—. 'AVhirhvind —Paul Hammond, Ha>vard, 1906 (syiper); William W. Swan JLarchinont Yacht Club (assistant); Landon K. Thorne, Yale, 1910; Adrian Islin, jun., navigator; L. Francis Herreshdff, designer. Francis Herreshoff is a son of Nathaniel Herreshoff, America's • most famous designer of yachts.

Weetamoe—Commodore George Nieh ols," HaVvard, 1900 (skipper); Clinton H. Crane' (designer); Augustus H. ‘ Eustis (navigator); John Parkinson ; Robert N. Bavior; John Christianson. Nichols is a son-in-law of J. Pierpont Morgan. Christainson was leading officer in the Resolute when she defeated Shamrock IV. Weetamoe is a bronze sloop of much the “same appearance as ■ Enterprise about' tlie hull. As she has no forward truss at the masthead, and as her shrouds' are direct leads through the. spreaders' to the chain plates, her .standing rigging looks very slight compared with the other candidates. The syndicate which financed her construction was: .Mr Nichols, Mr J. Pierpont Morgan, Mr Cornelius Vanderbilt, Mr Arthur-Curtiss.James, Mr Junius Morgan, Mr Gerard B. Lambert (owner of Vanite, which Avon the Seawanhaka Cup), and several others of great wealth. Length overall, 125 ft; waterline, 83ft; beam, 20ft 3in; draught, 15ft; displacement, 143 tons; sail area square feet. Enterprise—Harold S. Vanderbilt, Harvard, 1907 (skipper); Charles F. Havepieyer, (chief helmsmen); Winthrop W. Aldrich, Harvard 1907; Sherman Hovt; W. Starling Burgess (designer.) The syndicates of oAvners includes 5 Commodore Vincent Astor, Mr G. F. Baker, jun., Commodore Floyd L. Carlisle, Mr Ogden Mills, Mr’Marold Vanderbilt, Mr , George Whitney, Mr Winthrop .‘Aldrich' and Mr E. W. Clark (oAvner of Resolute which defeated’Shamrock'lV for the American Cup in a i92o). Enterprise Avas beaten in her early races by both Yanitie and Resolute. ■ •

•Yankee—John S. LaAvrence, Harvard 1901 (helmsman); ’Frank C. Paine (designer) • C. R. Hunt; Chandler C. Hovey. Bronze sloop, built at Boston by the George LoAvley and Son ‘Corporation; Length over all, 126 ft ; waterline, 83ft; beam, 22ft Sin; draught, 15ft 9in ;. displacement, 145 tons; sail area 7550 square feet; height oh mast 165 ft. \ Yankee’s mast is equipped with four sets- of spreaders and "three struts as Avell as the usual runners and black stays.

v The selection committee of the New York Yacht Club indicates five-men, four of whom are W. Duncon Butter, George A Cormack (secretary), W. A. W; Stewart and I Townsend Irvin. The fifth member was to have been a Bostom member of the New York Club. Cormack,has been thirty years an official of the club and has organised the defence to several challengers. -The prospective defenders have atrad,v had a heavy programme of racing at Glen Cove, Oyster. Bay, New London and Newport. The'trial races are being held at Newport over alternate triangular and windward and leeward coureses of thirty miles, the same as the international races, starting nine miles south-east of Brenton Reef light .ship, where the defender and SirThomas Lipton’s Shamrock V. will meet next - month.