Word: yachtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Michael Cudahy '36 will endeavor to win back the crown he gained for Harvard in 1934, and which now rests in the spinnakers of the Princetonians, tomorrow as he heads a delegation of six Crimson yachtsmen in the annual intercollegiate sailing championships...
...each. Almost every Norwegian fiord contains a fleet of them. In the U. S., they made their first appearance in 1923 but, though the class has grown since then, no new boats have appeared in the past year while the Norwegians have been building 25. Improvements in design, yachtsmen felt, might easily make last week's series a runaway for Norna. Expertly sailed, marvelously fast against the wind, she nosed out Challenge in the first two races. The Committee had a case of champagne put on ice the next afternoon, so that when Skipper Konow...
...Yachtsmen surmised that Stoertebeker, sighted once before and sailing east on the 40th parallel, was by last week about 600 miles behind the leaders who should reach port this week but who, because of handicaps, may not win the race...
...newshawks he announced that he would never challenge for the Cup again. While a party at Newport's Clambake Club broke up in a row over whether the Committee should have heard the Sopwith protest and Designer Charles G. Nicholson of Endeavour went home disgusted, fair-minded yachtsmen had no trouble reaching a conclusion about the historic truths of the 1934 series: Endeavour, as a boat, was definitely faster than Rainbow. Mr. Sopwith, as a skipper who took the blame for "all my wrong tactics," was decidedly less able than Harold Vanderbilt. And Rainbow's crack crew outsmarted...
...miles, 15 with the wind and 15 against it. Endeavour rounded the halfway mark with a 6½-min. lead. An unfortunate tack by Endeavour, a lucky puff of wind for Rainbow, enabled the Vanderbilt boat first to catch up with Endeavour then to perform the maneuver which yachtsmen call "back-winding." Air currents, forced backwards by Rainbow's sails, destroyed the vacuum on the front side of Endeavour's. Endeavour lost more ground by tacking again, trailed Rainbow across the line...