. The encyclopaedia of sport. e 5-tonners went ongrowing longer, narrower and heavier with acorresponding increase in sail plan and in lost his life in the wreck of the Oona, off theEast coast of Ireland, just when he hadsucceeded in making a name for himself, andin his creation, the Currytush, was found aboat which was destined to prove the mostsuccessful 3-tonner in Southern waters. Sosuccessful indeed was the Currytush that noboat could be found to compete against her, andas any hope of building a craft to rival herappeared to mean going to great expense only toproduce something still longe
. The encyclopaedia of sport. e 5-tonners went ongrowing longer, narrower and heavier with acorresponding increase in sail plan and in lost his life in the wreck of the Oona, off theEast coast of Ireland, just when he hadsucceeded in making a name for himself, andin his creation, the Currytush, was found aboat which was destined to prove the mostsuccessful 3-tonner in Southern waters. Sosuccessful indeed was the Currytush that noboat could be found to compete against her, andas any hope of building a craft to rival herappeared to mean going to great expense only toproduce something still longer and narrower,small boat sailers fought shy of the task. As aresult she was left alone in her glory, havingpractically extinguished the 3-ton class in theSouth. On the Clyde, however, there was still asporting class of narrow 3-tonners which kept upa series of matches for some years after the classhad lost its popularity in the South : the best ofthese were Ariel, Cora, Coila, Rona,and Daisy. The class may be f:iirly said to. From Yacht Architecture (1885), by kind of Messrs. Dixon Kemp and Horace weight of spars and gear. They became ex-ceedingly costly craft into the bargain.• After the rule had been working a few years,builders began to turn out yachts which were of5 tons measurement by dimensions, but displacedas much as 8, lo or even 12 tons, instead of 5tons as was the original intention. When the 1730 rule was found to have theeffect of increasing the cost of s-tonners to avery considerable extent, a 3-ton class spranginto existence. These soon became boats of avery extreme type, long, narrow, deep, and verywet in a sea. The Clyde was the original homeof this class, but they spread round the Englishcoast, and in 1882 several of them were tobe found on the Thames. The most notedof these little crafts that year were the Snarley Yow and Mascotte on theThames and a Devonport built boat calledthe Chittywee, designed by Mr. J- Ash,which was the best boat o
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