The yacht Independence (1901)
The Independence, a yacht that tried to make it to the
America´s cup race in 1901. My colorization of a 1901 Detroit Publishing Co. photo in the Library of Congress archive.
"The Independence, an entrant for the 1901 America's Cup race. It was considered the fastest boat in the 1901 America's Cup, but turned out to be too fragile and was never in the race. The Cup was eventually won by the Columbia, one of only three boats to successfully defend the Cup."(Wikipedia)
In the book "Thomas Lipton´s America´s Cup Campaigns" by Richard V. Simpson, the Independence is described in this way:
"Although her hull is probably not lighter that that of the Columbia, she gains power through the flattening of the floor and hardening of the bilges, and the carrying of the floor out into overhangs of exceptional length. As originally designed, she was to carry a sail-spread of 14,611 square feet, with a total ballast of 75 tons. The unprecedented character of her model -.unprecedented, that is, for a 90-footer - rendered her tentative method of proportioning the spars almost anecessity: and, very wisely, care was taken to have the sail-spread over rather than under the capacity of the boat."
The yacht Independence (1901)
The Independence, a yacht that tried to make it to the
America´s cup race in 1901. My colorization of a 1901 Detroit Publishing Co. photo in the Library of Congress archive.
"The Independence, an entrant for the 1901 America's Cup race. It was considered the fastest boat in the 1901 America's Cup, but turned out to be too fragile and was never in the race. The Cup was eventually won by the Columbia, one of only three boats to successfully defend the Cup."(Wikipedia)
In the book "Thomas Lipton´s America´s Cup Campaigns" by Richard V. Simpson, the Independence is described in this way:
"Although her hull is probably not lighter that that of the Columbia, she gains power through the flattening of the floor and hardening of the bilges, and the carrying of the floor out into overhangs of exceptional length. As originally designed, she was to carry a sail-spread of 14,611 square feet, with a total ballast of 75 tons. The unprecedented character of her model -.unprecedented, that is, for a 90-footer - rendered her tentative method of proportioning the spars almost anecessity: and, very wisely, care was taken to have the sail-spread over rather than under the capacity of the boat."