Word: buoying
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days of strong racing weather. On the last morning the bay was choppy and little...
...took a long time coming into the starboard tack and heading for the line, but still he was too soon and had to lose position running along the line waiting for the whistle. So Captain Heard won the start again. The first leg was to windward, to a buoy off Point Judith. Both crossed the line closehauled on the starboard tack with Shamrock about 200 yd. to windward. A minute after crossing the line Heard took the port tack and Vanderbilt followed him. Enterprise was footing faster, pointing higher as they headed toward Narragansett. Shamrock was far behind...
...time a terrific squall delayed the start. Sweden got the best start; the Dutch boat blanketed the U. S. Ripple and Sweden stayed in front. In the third race the Ripple made a long beat to port while the Swedish yacht was off to starboard, came round the first buoy on the second round well in front, crossed the finish line 88 sec. ahead of France. On the fourth day the yachts again idled in the scant zephyrs until the recall signal was hoisted...