Talk:Yampa (yacht)

Emperor's Cup
That Wikipedia article is not about sailing. There was an Emperor's Cup which featured German yachts racing against the world's best. See here. 7&amp;6=thirteen (☎) 16:07, 4 February 2018 (UTC)
 * You will have to make up a disambiguation page first (which will be the red link at first), then an article on that particular Emperor's Cup IF you want to link it. I recommend to just leave it unlinked = a lot less work!--Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:39, 4 February 2018 (UTC)

Exists?
The tense of the article is written as if the yacht still exists, yet there is nothing in the article to suggest it's existence past 1902. I think evidence should be provided of it's existence and continued history, or the tenses should be changed and information post 1902 and eventual demise added. Canterbury Tail talk 16:42, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * I know it existed up to 2013 (Iduna name), but can not find information on its late history.--Doug Coldwell (talk) 17:50, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * How do we know that's the same boat? Comparing the photos there are practically no similarities. The hawse is much lower on the Iduna than on the Yampa photo. The bow is a different shape and none of the portholes match up. I think we're going to need some references here. Canterbury Tail talk 19:33, 6 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Actually it's not the same boat. I found the webpage for the Iduna, and it was laid down in 1939. so it can't be the same boat at all. Same name, different boat. Canterbury Tail talk 19:34, 6 February 2018 (UTC)

Originally named Tampa?
The reference to a clipping from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle of Sunday, 18 December 1887, describes a boat name "Tampa", not "Yampa". Is this about the same craft, or a different one? — Quicksilver (Hydrargyrum)T @ 20:17, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * This is a misspelling by the staff writer of The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as this book reference shows the the Yampa was first owned by Chester W. Chapin. --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:17, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * Sharp eyes and good point. That T has to be a mistake made by the Brooklyn Daily Eagle in 1887 (probably by the type-setter), the schooner that they were referring to is actually the Yampa, one and the same (see Library of Congress citation, etc. Yampa is a river/area in Colorado (no idea why the boat was named the Yampa).  The Daily Eagle's article aligns with known facts about the ''Yampa":
 * built for Chester W. Chapin
 * designed by A. Cary Smith
 * built in Wilmington, Delaware
 * a steel schooner.
 * There is also a NY Times article with an almost-exactly the same title as the Daily Eagle - "The New Yacht Yampa - Putting the finishing touches to Mr. Chapin's Steel Schooner" (as opposed to "The Yacht Tampa : Mr. Chapin's Steel Schooner Receiving the Finishing Touches". This clip in its entirety is found in the archives of the Southwest Harbor Public Library in Maine and exhibits many points of commonality between the Daily Eagle blurb and the Times article.
 * So, anyway, I would say that no, there was never a steel schooner named the Tampa built for Chester W. Chapin, designed by A. Cary Smith (and subsequently owned by Kaiser Wilhelm). Shearonink (talk) 21:30, 1 March 2018 (UTC)
 * This is that NY Times article and even the OCR text at the bottom shows Yampa with a "Y". --Doug Coldwell (talk) 21:48, 1 March 2018 (UTC)

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