Word: endeavoured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...goes to the yacht which first wins four races. Races are 30 mi. each, alternating between 1) a straight course into the wind & back and 2) a course around an equilateral triangle with ten-mile sides. Last week, after spectators had delayed the start 45 min., Ranger and Endeavour crossed the line, with Endeavour a length ahead but Ranger well to windward. The breeze was light and the boats' job was to work 15 mi. into it, round a buoy and run back before the wind to the line they had just crossed...
...first twelve minutes of the race, neither gained. Then the breeze began to freshen, Ranger picked up speed, and both sailed off on a long port tack. Sopwith smartly changed Endeavour's head-sails but when he began to catch up, Vanderbilt changed Rangers. About halfway to the buoy, when both boats went about for the second time. Ranger was half a mile ahead...
Strategy in yacht racing is for the boat that is losing to change her tactics. In the last half of the first leg of the first race last week, Sopwith started a tacking duel in the hope that better handling on Endeavour would reduce Ranger's lead. If anything, Ranger's tacks were executed a shade more smartly. She rounded the mark with a six-minute lead...
...down wind, Sopwith then tried a desperate alternative that offered at least a chance of catching up. He sailed far off the course to gamble on a better breeze. The hope, forlorn at best, was frustrated. When Ranger crossed the line, in a deafening uproar from the spectator fleet. Endeavour was barely visible in a gathering fog. She finished 17 min. 5 sec. later, beaten more thoroughly than any boat in an America's Cup race since James Bell's Thistle was beaten by Volunteer...
Second Race, around a triangle consisting of a ten-mile beat against a mild southwesterly breeze followed by two broad reaches, was more one-sided than the first. Ranger, outmaneuvered at the start, trailed Endeavour for the first hour, then took the lead and held it-10 min. ahead at the first mark, 16 min. ahead at the second, 18 min. ahead at the finish. Skipper Sopwith, discouraged, asked for a one-day postponement...