AMERICA CUP.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXXXV, Issue 195, 31 August 1903, Page 2

AMERICA CUP.

LIFION'S PRAIBB OF HBBBBBHOFTB SKILL. / AWAITS BIMILAR KNGLIBH GEMOT BEFORE RK-OHALbENGING. Per Press Association. New York, August 20. Sir Thomas Lipton, whea interviewed after yesterday's race, itid : " When we produce a Herreahoff I will Ireohallenge for the Oup, bat not until j then. The braiog for boat building an on this aids. Herreahoff ia a wizard. The Reliance is the beat boat in all [winds, and she won on her strict merits. I am a most disappointed man." Replying to a question regarding the ! Shamrock's smaller sail area Sir Thomas Lipton said he entrusted everything ;i«Bociated with the construction ana design of his yacht to the best of logland's talent. A thirty mile gale was blowing H the committee postponed the race. Beoeived 81.1.15 a.m. New Tobk, August 30, The next race will be sailed oa Monday.

NOTES ON THIS YA.OHTB. DUNEDIN EXPERTB OHMOIB. A well-known yachting expat has furnished some interesting pointa relating to the InternatioQ Yacht Race. Be says that the Reliance ia a boa* with a flat floor, powerfully built, and with an extreme overhang. She if 2Qftt longer in orer-all measurement than Shamrock 111. She ia very much of the scow type, but is bardly so extreme a soow as Oeonshield's boat of two years ago, the Independent. Thie makes her very much atiffar than tk» Shamrock, whioh is rather of the old r.ype, with a hollow, floor and a short overhang, which does not give her the* name stability in a breeze. In a way Shamrock 111. may be said to hark oaok to the old cruiser type of eight or ten yean ago. The overhang of the Reliance makes her stiffer, and gives her great sail carrying power, and the minu'e she heels over she increases hec water-line very muoh by oompariwo with Shamroek 111. In faot, Herrcehoff has not only outolasted the Baglub yacht in overhang, but in measurement everywhere, except where it is taxed! for it. The Shamrock's beat ohanoe* would Beam to lie either in one weather extreme or the other, that is, either k» very light air or in an out-and-oufr blow, as in ordinary weather she heek much easier than the stiff Amerioan i boat, In lumpy water, at the tail end of a blow, HerreshofFs boat would be Bden at her worst, as vesßels|of the scow type, with a long overhang, pouaxt heavily in lumpy water, and more especially if there is not muoh wind. Oo the other hand, in a fresh brer as ah* has stability to carry sail and get over the top of the water mueh more easily than the English boat, whioh saiv through the water, This is on account of her short orerhang and V-shaped sections. But the o«usa likely to affeat the results of noes between the Reliance and Shamrock 111. is not so much the matter of design as'of manning and handling.