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Special trains ran from Boston. An excursion steamer went out from Yarmouth. The automobiles of country people moved in slow procession along Hesperus Avenue* and Bass Rocks Road. Canadians were betting even money on Bluenose although it looked as though Captain Pine had the best crew. Aboard the Thebaud were Captains Powers, Johnson, Mallock, Sparrow, Prior and Domin-gos-masters all. On a day of white piling seas the two boats put out around the 37-mi. course. Though a 14-knot breeze was blowing, Captain Walters of Bluenose scoffed the idea that the weather was rough. Rough for amateur...
Several things went wrong as the Gertrude L. Thebaud of Gloucester, Mass. and the Bluenose of Lunenburg, Nova Scotia got ready for the international fishermen's races last week. On the way to Gloucester the fore topmast of Bluenose buckled. The Gertrude L. Thebaud sprang a leak in her stern during a practice spin. She was hauled out and re-calked. Such a leak meant nothing at all, insisted Captain Ben Pine. Boats built for work instead of pretty racing must show marks of their trade once in a while. Gertrude L. Thebaud was designed by Frank Paine...
Both boats as usual carried every stitch of canvas they had. Often The baud dipped her rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks. When Thebaud had won the race, twice round the course with an extra lap up Gloucester harbor, by 15 minutes, Bluenose's sails were rushed to a loft...
...becalmed that they had to have launches tow them into port. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Lipton continued to live quietly on his yacht Erin, going ashore seldom, once to motor around Ocean Drive with Mayor Sullivan of Newport. Captain Ben Pine, owner of the fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, came to see him and Sir Thomas said he would put up a cup for the Gloucester fishing sloop races...
Gertrude L. Thebaud. People drove over from Gloucester and Rockport, parked their cars along the causeway and up all the side streets and along the main road clear to the Essex Depot. Workmen knocked out the blocks and a two-masted fishing schooner skimmed down the ways and across the Essex River. They had put on no snubbing line so the craft bedded into the soft earth of the opposite bank. Paid for by Mr. and Mrs. Thebaud, their son-in-law Robert McCurdy. and Basset Jones - all "summer people"; built by Capt. Arthur D. Story; designed to outsail...