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...hull the headway it needed. She beat each of her rivals on the windward and leeward course and then won the first race on the reaching course. Racing Enterprise next day, Weetamoe blew out the duralumin headboard of her mainsail in a 17-mi. breeze, had to withdraw. Skipper Vanderbilt of Enterprise put about likewise, refused the hollow victory. Designer W. Starling Burgess went aloft in a bo'sun's chair to make sure Enterprise's rigging was shipshape. The halyard fouled and he was stuck at the masthead, red whiskers blowing in the breeze, for more than an hour...
...Newport. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt won three more trial races with his America's cup yacht, Enterprise. Weetamoe beat her once but Enterprise made her default, protesting interference. Whirlwind went back to the shipyard to have her mast moved forward a bit, her underbody (hastily finished) scraped and repainted. Whirlwind was hopelessly beaten, Yankee still proved fast off the wind. So far Enterprise seems likeliest to meet Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V, though no trials have yet been sailed in a heavy wind. The formal elimination races come July 7 off Newport, the Cup races begin Sept...
...other defenders.) Fortunately for the Yankee, she rode quite a distance away from the Robert Jacob shipyard on City Island. Fire damaged that yard's pier. It destroyed about $200,000 worth of trophies, guns, silver, sails and equipment owned by Otto H. Kahn, William G. Vanderbilt, Walter P. Chrysler and others. Their vessels were absent. The fire also destroyed the winter home of the Vanitie, one of the cup defenders...
...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's Resolute, both sailed by their owners. There...
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