Outing . ob-ably not. Whatthe yacht doesrepresent is hisidea of the fast-est boat conceivable under the givenrestrictions. The Amorita was designed by Smith, and built for WilliamGould Brokaw, \>y Harlan & Hol-lingsworth at Wilmington. She waslaunched in December, 1895. She is of steel construction. Herunder - body shows a deep rockeredkeel of the Valkyrie type, the fore-foot from the water-line to the center-board being almost straight. Justunder the water-line, where the stemjoins the fore-foot, there is a slightupward curve. The ballast is all in-side, cast in a gutter keel. The c
Outing . ob-ably not. Whatthe yacht doesrepresent is hisidea of the fast-est boat conceivable under the givenrestrictions. The Amorita was designed by Smith, and built for WilliamGould Brokaw, \>y Harlan & Hol-lingsworth at Wilmington. She waslaunched in December, 1895. She is of steel construction. Herunder - body shows a deep rockeredkeel of the Valkyrie type, the fore-foot from the water-line to the center-board being almost straight. Justunder the water-line, where the stemjoins the fore-foot, there is a slightupward curve. The ballast is all in-side, cast in a gutter keel. The cen-terboard houses below the cabin-floor,permitting of an arrangement whichplaces the saloon amidships in thedeepest and widest part of the ves-sel. The extreme draught, withoutthe centerboard, is thirteen feet, orthree feet greater than that of Emeraldand only feet less than that of Co-lonia. She has a good beam for a yachtof her type, with slightly flaring top-sides and a rather slack bilee. The. IROQUOIS. chief characteristics of the Amoritasform, however, are her bluntly roundedbow, her long, heavy stern-overhang,and the fullness of her bows and quar-ters above the water-line. Comparingthe line of her stem, from water-lineto stem-head, on the sheer plan, withthe same line on Emerald or Colouia,the stem of the Amorita has a heavyrounded curve approximating the quad-rant of a circle where the others approacha straight line. It looks as though thebow had rammed something hard. Thefore-overhang of the Amorita is over afoot shorter than that of hersuccessful rival, the Quissetta,though the latter is a shorterwhile her aft-over-hang is nearly three feetgreater than that ofQuissetta. Am-oritas stern endsin a heavy ovaltransom, wherein most of thep new yachts thesterns are finedaway into a longand slenderoverhang. Sheis an attempt tobuild a boat aslarge as possibleabove the water-line, on the least pos-sible displacement. A comparison ofthe general dimensions of this vesse
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