. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1887 , Thistle's challenge fur the America's Cup has been received by the New York Yacht Clob, and is reported to be pro forma. Her dimeusions huve also come to baud but tiot officially. The press dispatches Btate that she is three feet longer than Mayflower; that means ninety-eight f^et. In depth and draught she is much the same as Genesta, Galatea, Irex and Marjorie, and other cutters that are well-known here. But in beam she is in broad contrast to them all; tbe reported measurement of the amidship section being over twenty feet; this is about live feet more
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. 1887 , Thistle's challenge fur the America's Cup has been received by the New York Yacht Clob, and is reported to be pro forma. Her dimeusions huve also come to baud but tiot officially. The press dispatches Btate that she is three feet longer than Mayflower; that means ninety-eight f^et. In depth and draught she is much the same as Genesta, Galatea, Irex and Marjorie, and other cutters that are well-known here. But in beam she is in broad contrast to them all; tbe reported measurement of the amidship section being over twenty feet; this is about live feet more beam than any other fast English cutter of anything like equal length and depth. Thistle's draft is nearly fifteen feet, much the same as Galatea's. The dispatch states that she is to be built of steel, but the report has many inaccuracies, hence not much faith can be put upon it. No doubt need be cast upon her beam; for many years the English yacht racing rules have taxed beam, which drove modelers and builders to seek speed and weatherlineBs in depth. But in racing for America's Cup beam is not a factor, load line and sail area being the bases of measurements. In the races between Puritan and Genesta, Mayflower and Galatea, the scale in each case was turned by the centreboard of the Ameri- can sloops. Thistle has no centreboard, but she has more than four feet more draft than Mayflower, but three feet less beam. Should the pair meet, the centreboard question will be decided. If Mayflower scores a victory from Thistle, then English yachtsmen must be content to give up the deep keel and put in its place the despised cheese knife. Tbe com- parison will be one of the most interesting that has taken place in yacht racing. The types of boats that have met hitherto have been very different, but should Mayflower or a boat of her dimensions meet Thistle next September in anything like a strong breeze, tbe question of centreboard or no centreboard will be effectually disposed of. This
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