Show Ix answer to Britisher Yachtsman Yachts-man Aurora and several other correspondents cor-respondents we publish the following talk by Lieutenant Henn of the Galatea as it answers fully all the questions propounded pro-pounded by them The talk was made to a reporter for the Boston Globe on Saturday Sat-urday last I am perfectly satisfied that I have no chance with the Mayflower in any breeze in which she can carry her topsail and I want to see what we can do with her when we come down to three lower sails I did not have muoh hope of beating the Mayflower in light weather The Mayflower carries 9000 feet of canvas to my 7000 The Mayflower May-flower has only 110 tons of displacement displace-ment while the Galatea displaces 154 tons consequently I have only seven ninths the power and have to displace once and a half as much water as she does So if < stands to reason that I cannot beat her in ight weather I am convinced con-vinced of that but what I want to see is what she will do in breeze I think that the Mayflower will have to shorten sail before be-fore the Galatea does and that I can carry a working topsail when she will have to comedown come-down to her three lower sails In that case we will be more on an equality as regards diving power If I cannot win then I cannot can-not win at all That is why I wanted to race to Bermuda Your sloops are fine vessels ves-sels but I do not think they can carry their enormous spread of canvas in ocean cruising cruis-ing I think they would have to shorten their spars They would then be very able vessels and I would be carrying as much canvas as they Do you think the centre board will gain in favor in England after these races I cant say as to that You have learned a lot from us in the last few years If one of your crack cutters had come over here quietly a year before the Genesta came over here she could have taken the cup without a doubt but there was a years delay while the matter was being talked over and before the Genesta came you had built the Puritan You got your ideas from our rig and method of ballasting and I hope I have got some good ideas from your yachts If I had known that the Genesta would challenge for the cup probably the Galatea would never have been built I should not have built a boat so much like the Genesta for the same purpose If I were building one now I should make her two feet and six inches wider than the Galatea |