Word: yachtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Oyster Bay, N. Y., Sept. 27--United States yachtsmen made it two straight triumphs today in their team match series with the Scottish six-meter best sailors for the British-American...
...last month, Endeavour became immediately the most feared challenger for the America's Cup since Shamrock 11 in 1901. Last fortnight she was favorite at odds of 7-to-5. Last week, after the start of the four-out-of-seven race series, U. S. Yachtsmen had no reason to alter their opinion. In two days of sailing, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow had been better handled, shown herself the faster boat in light airs. But Endeavour had proved that she is a fine boat in a stiff breeze and that her skipper's reputation for quick...
...official, races have to be finished in five and a half hours. The fourth trial, in flickering airs, lasted longer than five and a half, but when it was over, yachtsmen were less sanguine than they had been about Rainbow. Weetamoe, sailed by Richard Boardman, had beaten her off wind and on over a 34-mile course, by a mile and a half. There was an 18-mile breeze, just the kind of weather Yankee likes, for the fifth race but Skipper Adams went to the Harvard commencement exercises while Rainbow nosed out Weetamoe...
...more than a year there have been transatlantic whispers of a new challenge for the America's Cup, the international trophy held by U. S. yachtsmen since 1851 despite all that the late Sir Thomas Lipton could do about it. Last week the whispers gathered into a sharp, clear challenge from the Royal Yacht Squadron. The source was remarkable inasmuch as the Royal Yacht Squadron, world's swankest yachting organization, had had no dealings with the U. S. since 1895 when the Earl of Dunraven sailed home in a rage, charging sharp practice by the America...
...lighthouse keeper at Fastnet, Ire land, tells visitors that waves often go over the dome of his light, 150 ft. above the level of the frothy ocean. Whether this is true or not, ocean yachtsmen know that the 720-mi. race of the Royal Ocean Racing Club of England, from Cowes to Lonely Light at Fastnet and back again, is the most dangerous in the world. Fog, strong summer winds, the churning currents of the English Channel, make it far more risky than crossing the Atlantic, where at least yachts do not run the chance of going aground...