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...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 puffs heeled the gunwales down so that many...
Yesterday the 1934 harriers covered the full course for the first time. Although the Freshman squad, contains material of considerable promise, Coach Mikkola is still in search of more runners. Only two weeks remain for the coaches to season the first year men before the opening triangular meet with Holy Cross and New Hampshire on October...
Second Race. Two days later weather conditions were more favorable, with a fair southwest wind. The Committee boat's little flags announced the course: triangular, 10 mi. to windward, then 10 mi. southeast-by-east, then back to the starting point. Skipper Vanderbilt crossed the line neatly as the starting gun boomed, stepped out in front and to windward of Shamrock V, from which a ton of lead ballast had been removed. Strategically, Enterprise kept her advantage, tacking with Shamrock V, keeping her rival out of the wind and at a disadvantage as a hawk follows a pigeon. Unable...
...goads shall be 2.70 metres long ending in a triangular steel sticker with a flattened point. The point will have a circular guard of iron seven centimetres in diameter, three centimetres thick, to prevent undue laceration of the bull's skin...
...been decided that yacht A would race B the first day, and C the second, D the third, with the order changing correspondingly for the other boats in each race. Three times they raced to a mark and back, then began a new series of three races on a triangular course to test reaching...