The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, September 10, 1899, Page 27

THE SUNDAY CALL. A T AT T > D> D DD D> W Wil Win 2 DO yOOIDI o A cked experts, from part of a cf acre, It {s bec , or about a third of an mass of canvas quired on the xperience can ap- lous task of handling rapidly a sail spread such as refal vessel of three Columbfa’s size would carry just sall spread. To car nprofitable and r canvas set | d in her re- ler is about 1 vessel her 200 horses would be required to do t the sails of Columblia An speed s of coal “long ton’ for g maximum speed, or s of twenty-four hours. days for crossing, the vessel such as the Columblu given power equivalent to about 100 tons of coal. There are many other interesting feat- ures about these Not the least in- & is the fact that with all the vast of money spent on perfecting and who built Mr. Mo besid in New York and elsewhere that the could easily distance them in a straighte away race before the wind. Both the Columbia and the Shamrock draw st sport f » American side the is borne principally by fitting up om the fact t Pier : great banke out 18 feet of water. This deep 1 York draught create a proportionate « Y ) amo of r ance that must ddition t - light sails of » way from be overcome by the sails. A boat drawing only one or two 2 to $4 per yard. feet of water has little or family, thousands of is of s He ranks as the the amount of money that 1, resistance to over- he Columbia, has been spent in the cor forathe oo dh s e e b he e America’s cup, it 13 without exception the fore. jt could run away most valuable thing in the world. The from the fastest vese come lav- crown of the Czar o the cing hon- ornament on ear its marvelous owner of the De- diamonds and rubies and other price! d the international gems, becom t a bauble in com e IIL. The De- ison with this battered old silver cup. 4 trophy has been fought for ten times: sel of the deep- draught Columbia d Shamrock s as long as it was going c eltm} 1851, '70, 'T1, '76, 'S1, 'S5, '86, '87, ad “olumbia’s In the past, while the cost of prepara B and noney spent for all its items o not been as great as will be the case this vear, the average cost for the ten races sl ot up $500,000 for each, or a al of $5.000,000. The total sail lumbia is about read of the Co= 000 square feet, foot wide, the tch nearly ground, they would cover r main- a good 1as been about on thy e boat els as the Columbia become ed with the others. It is it is for t the designers and bullders have spent years and years in erimenting, and the owners have spent miilions of money in building. It is for work of this s that the vessels are made to draw much B against es a pe- wnics. Here the wind is pushing one way, and in order to overcome this force and to el from being driven proportionately larga surface be presented under- neath, agalnst which the push the other w: Under g forces the vessel giide = that the fine lines in which delight count. The the gre: T the with which the vessel glides out from the Ta bring out the speed all conditions th rranged the wind un gulations govers ternational cu 88 course on on ieg, ten miles on the sec- ond leg and ten miles on the thira log 2 ¢ o102l 0005000 s808090% Tt is when sailing against the wind g oo T <2 2005 T G R A [l ( e e e ot A TEURTTT AL [T (ISR A SR = = = TR ' MHete Ts a Complete Review of the —