| Show iho development e v 0 rf B me n t of of aft go the raab g w hawes hull w 1 eg by john R spears RE predictions are made that as an exper ment in the shapes shaves of hulls the races of this year are to be of greater interests Inter interest estl than any ever held in the races of the galatea period the stem rose verti cally out of the water while the stern overhung the water by a few feet A broadside view of either of them showed a lateral plane that looked like a sled runnel cut flout a plank by a countey boy seen from another point of view the bow of the yacht was found to be a vertical wedge thin and sharp like the blade of a woodi woodman nans s as ax ana an it was a question among builder builders whether the wedge should ha han e lines like an ax or hollow lines I 1 ke a razor the stein below the i water y aberl ne was also something of a vertical wedge though a blunter one thin than the bow in general damens ons the galatea wit was s 1022 feet long over all eighty seven feet on the wa waterline telline fifteen feet wide perhaps ten feet deep below decks and her draught was thirteen thi iteen feet six inches her sue opponent the mayflower was feet long over all was twenty three teet feet wide and was perhaps seven feet deep andel the deck and she diew ten f feet ee t of water with these facts in mini min I 1 we can see how fai fat we e have traveled in changing the shapes of boats of that class I 1 oi 01 shamrock III though but three feet longer on the waterline is feet long over all the old boat had in overhang of fifteen teet feet all of which was aft while the new boat has an overhang of twenty five feet at each end the new defender when compared with the mayflower shows almost exactly the same changes in length roughly speaking each end of the old yachts was a wedge that lode the water with its edge perpendicular the forward half of shamrock III is not unlike the half of a cone split lengthwise while the stern half au drawn out into a lon long thin horizontal wedge a wedge with its edge laid parallel with the N nater ater at the stern the challenger la Is a scow the Rel reliance lince hoi however Never Is a scow at both ends in spite of the tact fact that her bow comes to a point above water each end presents a fine horizontal wedge to the water and therefore in every sailing line she is a scow we used to stand in front of a I 1 achs ach and mariel man el at the thinness 0 the vertical wedge now we stand off abeam and look with delight at the sweep of the fore and aft lines one sees at a glance why the modern hull Is moie easily and therefore mole swiftly driven through the the modern hull presents fine or acute angles to the water where the old hull aiese ted wide or obtuse angles the world a work f za |
