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Show AMERICAN BOATS ARE BETTER THAN GERMAN i Admiral Baramloii Compliments Yankee Shipbuilding; Sticks to German Sailors. KIEL. Prussia, March U. Admiral I'arandon. who attended the German Ger-man and American yacht contest at Marbleliend last September contributes an interesting account 'of it for the new volume of the year-book of the Imperial Yacht club of Kiel. The writer was formerly for-merly superintendent of Krupp s shipbuilding ship-building yards at Kiel, which built somo of the bc.it German yachts, and is thus in position to speak with authority on the comparative merits of thes" craft. In recard to the handling of lite contesting con-testing boats, the admiral thinks that the Americans were not superior to the Germans, and in the case of the 1 Javelin, lie thinks they were decidedly outclassed. The German boats were superior io the American only when their sails were carried car-ried completely erect, that Is, when sailing sail-ing before a light wind, but as soon as the American yachla heeled over before, tthe wind, thoy showed themselves considerably con-siderably faster than Iho Germans. The admiral thus sums up his judgment: "It seems to me therefore, that the American boats, except In really bad weather, are considerably better than Ihc German ones." |