. Races for the America's cup . OBATTLE FOR THE CUP. VIGILANT, JUBILEE, COLONIA AND IILGRIM— THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF EACH— THE FIN-KEEL CONTROVERSY. As soon as the arrangements for the interna-tional races had been completed the question of aboat to defend the cup came up. Two syndicateswere promptly formed in New-York and one inBoston, and General Paine announced that his Phelps Carroll to cross the ocean in search of theRoyal Victoria and the Cape May and Brentons-Reef cups. Herreshoff built for the Morgan-Iselinsyndicate the sloop Vigilant, and for the Rogers-syndicate the sloop Colonia. Th
. Races for the America's cup . OBATTLE FOR THE CUP. VIGILANT, JUBILEE, COLONIA AND IILGRIM— THE SPECIAL FEATURES OF EACH— THE FIN-KEEL CONTROVERSY. As soon as the arrangements for the interna-tional races had been completed the question of aboat to defend the cup came up. Two syndicateswere promptly formed in New-York and one inBoston, and General Paine announced that his Phelps Carroll to cross the ocean in search of theRoyal Victoria and the Cape May and Brentons-Reef cups. Herreshoff built for the Morgan-Iselinsyndicate the sloop Vigilant, and for the Rogers-syndicate the sloop Colonia. The Boston syndicate placed its orders for acup-de lender with Stewart & Binney, the succes-cors to the bhsiness of Burgess. Mr. Paine de-signed his own boat and had her built at SouthBoston. Of the four boats thus built the two Bostonboats are fin-keelte, the Stewart & Binney boatbeing purely a fin-keel and the Paine boat a fin-keel centreboard. Of the two boats built atHerreshoffs the Morgan-Iselin boat was a power-. THE VIGILANT. son, John B. Paine, would build a boat to com-pete for the honor of defending the trophy. Theprincipal shareholders in one of the New-Yorksyndicates were C. Oliver Iselin and CommodoreE, D. Morgan, of the New-York Yacht Club. Theother New-York syndicate was headed by Archi-bald Rogers. Both these syndicates placed theirorders with the Herreshoffs, who already had(under way the Navahoe, building for Royal ful centreboard sloop and the Rogers boat a keelsloop. By the end of June all the boats were inthe water, and their owners, designers andsailing-masters began to tune them up. The-Morgan-Iselin syndicate boat was named the Vig-ilant. Though the Vigilant shows in her modelthose general Herreshoff characteristics so wellexemplified in the lines of the Gloriana and Wasp,,she is a departure from tiie general model of those^ THE OUP DEFENDERS OF 1S93. 39 in many vital particulars. She is a perfect ex-emplification of the idea of power in boat-build-ing
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