Show I 1 flie vi E II 11 lwon VAY 01 FIN KEELS NEELS this tilis type will defend the america A cup A igal I 1 9 T 1 TWO challenges ti Is 1 1 4 I 1 of Gernin germany nylo doat can ST ji 1 ip of f but avd I yd 1 dun u it 1 rotha y worry Amer aserleans leans i eo facts about ain lit keel heels ti nt is a great flurry amon among the 1 I 1 g yacht yachtsmen caused va A by the announcement j that thal emperor b william lias has decided to send f I 1 0 his yacht meteor 1 I it to america next J I 1 summer to compete I 1 1 ie forthe for the america V cup along 11 with this news report not quite as sensational s1 sa I 1 a won more to the tlc alc purpose from the 4 it M eliat lord Dun dunraven raven artil boat to battle for the 1 a new 11 cup 4 TIP the li dews Ws regarding the german em eni 4 N possesses possess no further in W 1 1 vt per it r ban than the royal ownership of the iw y nini and the lie possibility that his ills royal b ivr ii lim s 1 l 1 l bear jel a hand nant in m the le contest ul n r bout boat is liot nothing bing moro more than the old r thistle general paines croop volunteer did the business for bi OP T 1 in 1887 as everybody 1 anit it was then said and is still ba bored by tit lit men abroad that the two I 1 r ars were mailed in weather that gave the clifter no chance coshow her best gheem tin emperor geror wants a it race in five trials ill TTo ri ifor fore it haa has been the best two in three the iden is to string out the tile race t ti see Irb tiler a gale cannot bo be picked up A jn ame one of trials it be cannot got the clip a vl victory tory in a hard blow would do linn bill a 0 lot of goods for ft a great boat in raging I 1 1 sea Is i tile tiro foreign ideal P I 1 biord Dun ravena ravens plans are giving amer lein yi ya kitsille lit sille much concern lie ile is an e D s ailor with unlimited means a it a anil tall be 1 lii burning up lip with a desire to win a lathrie lath b tle tie cup what manner minne of craft hi bi lie nen of rat i r as 1 to be e al and what I 1 is to be pitted 14 I 1 aga her a are re the conundrums of the men NA ci beg Rii ird 1 ng the first a leading yachts vill all nl to me that tho the new dew craft would ellb ij bla ies iw be kept to the english standard of 0 ll 11 darrow narrow and deep bull in oliell lit she will be met by a fin keel the th tin e fin keels he lie added are still in t hiir ile expert experimental tile nt r caje sm but ut one 0 jiing ia is cartain cr CL tain aal nl that is they are tho the ablest dealsy weather craft crift ever bren seen in they sarc I 1 I 1 this in er ann cnn rive diio they bave entered SEC 0 OF or ris rix kilell alre t arc was KEELER any blon inz in two or three instances rhea there was little or no wind they borc run away from by boats that bad rebr won anything in rough seas but 2 tills wa hardly a fair shako shake for the fins in tori frlan lyn 11 welters aters too the fin ran has won ton its way in the fastest company the 11 littly atle 2 wit cr wenona cleaned oui the whole fleet in the last big regatta in F wat M the new model la is so easily superior to I 1 the bv bai center boarders and keel vessels that it would be folly not to utilize the improvement in ill the next great Iti international terra struggle it is the simplest thing in tho the world amanthe greenest lubber can easily under I 1 lidit take a watermelon and cut it in two you have then tso tw 0 beat jile figures take a piece of tin twice as an edg al it is isaide wide and cut its edge into the bottom of one of these halves punch holes in the lower side of the tin and put a thin hollow mold along this edge pour liot hot lead into the mold the tile mold is a cross between a cigar and arid a fish in E hape but its lines are very lean and fine Thele the lead adrun through the holes in ILI the tin and makes it baries of binders the mold is taken away md and there 8 your lead fish stuck baston fast on both abides of the tile lower edge of the tin the lead is ballast and arid it is deep down in he the water that makes it po possible Able forthe for the loat boat to carry more sail than with the bal last in the hull bull or even on a eloping sloping keel that is the main advantage but not the sa SIDE VIEW OF FIX FIN KEEL anav our the flat fin takes better hold of the hen nater liter to prevent drift to leeward in windward work than a bulging keel forming part of the bull these two points are the whole atory here taw yachtsmen made two rough fetches sketches t if u vl aich cli nearly exact copies arc are girau they liow flow clearly the charac character tero 0 nal nathaniel dianiel remarkable invez tion I 1 A very noticeable feature of the I rew model he lie concluded conclude Is the tile entire absence abi alli I 1 ull c 8 of iiii an convex lines it has always heem been tile rule to fashion the cut water aud bow construction more or less on the tile form i at of the plow but this idea haa has been daw d u carded in the new design A big in fin sloop loop to meet the two forel foreigners gli is already one of the tile c certainties of the coming ewason feea son and will be laid down ilois master builder almy of tho tile con ani rn who haa haal a paternal interest in the ten v vi sis of this type which have been tuond out ut lit the bristol yards told me t I 1 s ill ones had bad all done 1111 ILlY and nd tb tin ru re is every lvery reason to think that an I 1 80 or W 0 foot racer would do proportionately better three other successful fin have been made by builders in bloton and brooklyn it iu is not yet hett fettled led yet who ii 13 to build th lb new dew american champion 14 |