Word: triangular
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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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...
First Race. On a 23-mi. triangular course started: Whirlwind, owned by Paul L. Hammond's and Langdon Ketchum Thome's syndicate, a beamy, heavy boat with a white hull and green underbody, a pointed stern and "No. 3" on her sails; Enterprise, No. 4, owned by the Vice Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich and Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt syndicate, with Mr. Vanderbilt sailing her; Weetamoe, owned by Rear Commodore Junius Spencer Morgan's and George Nichols' syndicate, white and bronze, No. i; and the old boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark...
...Navy crew, beating off a hard but belated sprint by California in the last quarter-mile: a triangular race on Lake Carnegie, with Princeton three lengths in the wash...