Word: sail
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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People who think better of her remember: 1) That in her trials in England she was far faster than all reasonable estimates of her speed based on her measurements. She beat famed Candida, a boat with five tons less displacement and 800 square feet more sail. 2) She can stand up in a wind and is wonderfully fast in light airs. One day at Newport when the U. S. contestants, holding an elimination trial, lay becalmed, she ghosted through them all as though she had an engine...
...look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind; what she can do in the slow swells of Newport water remains problematical. She is a modern, but not a strikingly original boat; there are comparatively few tricks...
...said Secretary Cormack of the Cup committee, "that she is the most dependable boat in all kinds of weather." Next day Enterprise flew all her flags in celebration. Skipper Vanderbilt went ashore, played a few sets of tennis but came back in time to take her out for a sail after lunch. Down came the sails of the three beaten sloops, their tenders pulled close to tow them away. Polite in defeat, the crews, skippers, and syndicates of Weetamoe and Yankee felt that if Shamrock V had stayed in New London instead of coming to Newport the trials might have...
...Capt. John White. With him Capt. White took his daughter Eleanor and her husband Ananias Dare. The ships made land at Cape Hatteras on July 22, cruised up what is now Pamlico Sound to the "iland called Roanoac" where the colonists were dumped ashore. Two vessels immediately spread sail for England. A fort was built, homes staked out. On Aug. 18 Eleanor Dare bore a daughter who was named Virginia after the Raleigh colony. She was the first English child born in America. Nine days later (Aug. 27) her grandfather, Capt. White, sailed back to England in the third ship...
...scene in which the stump of his bitten leg is seared with a hot iron and a closeup of him finally cutting his vengeance out of the whale that took the leg. Other great shots: the shanghaied crew of murderers; enlarged projections of the whaler under full sail in a choppy sea, wild-eyed Ahab battling a storm. The shot of the amputation was included, somewhat differently, in The Sea Beast, but the whole picture is new, entirely reconstructed and rephotographed...