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On the Eve of the Canada’s. Cup 
Contest. 
CANADIANS built three boats for the Canada’s 
cup challenge of 1907. Two of these were com- 
pleted in Great Britain and received their early 
trial sail there. These boats were Adele, 
designed by Payne, Jr., and Aileen II., designed 
by Alired Mylne. Aileen was built on the Clyde 
by James Adams, of Gourock. Adele was built 
by Somerhayes and Payne at ‘Southampton, 
England. Both were shipped out to Canada on 
the decks of ocean steamers. 
The third boat, Crusader, wes designed by 
Fife and her frame was put together at Fairlie, 
Scotland, and then taken down and shipped to 
Canada. It was set up and planked and the 
boat completed at Oakville, Ont., by Capt. 
Andrews, builder of all the Canada’s cup chal- 
lengers and defenders from the time of the 
original Canada. 
Adele is a_ graceful-lined, full-bodied boat 
closely resembling the famous Gloria, winner 
of the Coupe de France; her stemhead rising 
up rather abruptly, after the well-known Payne 
style, her counter drawn out to the thinnest of 
feather edges, her sheer generous, as far as rac- 
ing boats may be said to have generous sheer. 
Below water her model shows considerable 
depth of body, with the fin well-cut away for- 
‘ward and made fairly flat in the sides, and the 
lead ballast spread wide at the bottom, so as to 
get the center of gravity as low down as pos- 
sible and give the fin good gripping power on 
the water even at an extreme angle of heel. 
She is built throughout of rock elm frames and 
mahogany planking, in double thickness, three- 
quarters of an inch altogether. For racing pur- 
she is laid out in the simplest possible 
fashion, flush decked with a large oval cockpit 
amidships. The gratings forming the floor of 
this are high enough to bring the crew’s elbows 
well above the deck, but when she is fitted out 
for cruising the f will be lowered as much 
as 3ft., and with a cabin top she will have ample 
headroom. The rig is jib-and-mainsail sloop 
for moderate weather, and a cutter rig forward 
when it blows, but no topsails are carried. The 
finish of the boat is very pleasing, th« mahogany 
above the waterline being varnished and left so 
as to show the natural beauty of the wood. The 
light coaming above the covering board is 
enameled black, as is the hull below the water. 
Between the black and the red of the mahogany 
is a broad band of silver, and a narrow gold 
ribbon in the shear strake matches this. Adele 
measures large in every way, compared with the 
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Canada’s cup boats—more hull, more hoist, 
longer main boom and longer bowsprit—al- 
though in one point, displacement, Aileen has 
slightly the advantage. Adele’s owner is Mr. 
Cawthra Mulock, of Toronto, although from 
the time she was designed Mr. Aémilius Jarvis, 
the veteran Canada’s cup skipper, has taken a 
deep interest in her and had full charge of her. 
Aileen II. gets her name from the famous 
Watson cutter Aileen, which made a sensational 
cleanup of trophies on the lakes from Kingston 
to Chicago fifteen years ago or more. Mr. W. 
G. Gooderham, of Toronto, owner of the 
original Aileen, gave the order to Mylne on 
the strength of the performance of Zoraya. 
Mylne’s first boat on Lake Ontario, the new 
Aileen being intended for ‘the use of Mr. 
Gooderham’s | sons. Mr. Norman Gooderham 
sailed her from the time she was launched from 
the ocean steamer, but only once has the new 
boat come home a winner, and that was when 
the experiment of double headsails was being 
tried on Adele in light weather. Aileen’s hull 
is smart looking, although her freeboard is 
rather high. Her lines below water are fine and 
clean, and she has less depth of body than Adele, 
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although of the same draft. Her bilges are 
fuller and her garboards hollower. Her rig 
does not harmonize well with the high-sided 
hull, for smartness of appearance, her bow- 
sprit being remarkably short, and her mainsail 
rather narrow and high in cut. The rig is pleas- 
ing in itself, but it rather emphasizes the high 
freeboard. The profile of the stem is fuller 
than in Mylte’s introductory product, Zoraya, 
but the counter, while not quite so much of a 
sawed-off affair, resembles the latter in the rak- 
ing transom. Aileen is sloop rigged, without 
the cutter alternative of Adele, and she is 
planked with double thicknesses of mahogany 
above the waterline and yellow pine below. She 
is a roomy boat, even without any cabin top, 
and is laid out at present with a steering cock- 
pit and three hatches for sail handling forward 
of it. As in the other prospective challengers, 
her halliards all lead below decks, and she is 
steered with a tiller. 
Crusader is owned by Vice-Com. Frederi¢ 
Nicholls, of the Royal Canadian Y. C., and is 
the third boat that gentleman has built for the 
Canada’s cup. His challenger Temeraire came 
close to lifting it in 1905, and his Temeraire II., 
built for the challenge of 1906, was never used, 
owing to the postponement of the contest and 
the changing of the rules and the class of the 
Crusader is planked with yellow 
British Columbia cedar, and differs from the 
two other candidates with their varnished upper- 
THE ADELE—CHALLENGER 

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works, white boot-tops and black underbodies, 
in being painted throughout. Originally she 
had white topsides, only the yellow wood of 
her sheer strake being left showing through the 
varnish, and a green underbody. She was as 
pretty a marine picture then as one would wish 
to see. Later she was changed to a plain white 
above the water and black below. Her deck 
fittings are of mahogany, and she is laid- out 
with a steering well, cockpit, midship hatch, and 
small hatch forward for light sails. She is the 
narrowest and shoalest of the cup boats. Her 
bilges are round and her garboards hollow, and 
her lead ballast is rounded at the bottom and 
tapered, instead of being flattened and spread 
low. There is less curve to her bow profile 
than in either of the other boats. Her counter 
is a trifle short. but not heavy looking, and it 
is pinched in perhaps a trifle too much; at’ any 
rate, she does not get as much benefit from it 
when heeled. as Adele. She has a simple jib 
and mainsail rig, the proportion of the main- 
sail being large. 
Mylne’s Zoraya, wumsuccessful as Canada’s’ 
cup candidate, but winner ofthe Fisher Inter- 
national trophy cup last year, has had an un- 
doubted effect on the rigs of the new boats. Her 
high and narrow pyramid is imitated in all three. 
The result is excessive loftiness. These boats 
with a foot less beam and a couple of hundred 
square feet less total sail area than the Canada’s 
cup boats of 1905, have as much or more hoist. 
CANADA'S 
FOR THE 
A, Gleason, 
CUP. 



