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Category: GALATEA
The GalateaThe Galatea was owned by Lieut. William Henn, an enthusiastic yachtsman who had been in the Royal Navy for fifteen years and who (while yet a young man) had retired some ten years before so that he might devote more time to his favorite pastime.
As has been said, the Galatea, designed by Mr. Beavor Webb, was built in 1885, the year after Genesta, and was raced that season in English waters. 
She was somewhat larger than Genesta, being 12 feet longer over all. Her general dimensions were: Length waterline, 86 feet 10 inches; length over all, 102 feet 7 inches; beam, 15 feet, and draft, 13 feet 6 inches, while she spread 7751 square feet of canvas, exclusive of light sails. She was a regular "lead mine" of ballast, having 81 tons run into her keel. She was built of steel, the first challenger in which this material was used, and she was jocularly referred to here as the "tin frigate".
Unlike the Genesta, she was singularly unsuccessful at first in her home waters, and did not show up as well as her designer had expected. After her first season some alterations, principally in her ballast, were made and she did much better. Her owner, and also her designer, had great faith in her; yet judging from her performance in these waters she was not as fast as Genesta, Certainly she did not push Mayflower as hard as Genesta did Puritan, and Puritan could always give Mayflower a good race.
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