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...privately owned boats were bouncing up and down on the Atlantic Ocean, off Newport, R. I. Nearly out of sight of most of this huge de luxe flotilla, which was policed far off the course, Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger was racing Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour for the hideous 86-year-old silver pitcher which is the most prized sporting trophy in the world...
...Vanderbilt what he has been working for all winter. When the Royal Yacht Squadron challenge in behalf of T. O. M. Sopwith was accepted last summer. Skipper Vanderbilt was the obvious choice as his adversary. Sailing Rainbow, which most critics agreed was a slower boat than Sopwith's Endeavour I, he had contrived by sheer good seamanship to defend the Cup successfully in 1934. Ordinary procedure, in a sport where implements cost $500,000 each, is to organize a building syndicate. Instead of doing that, Skipper Vanderbilt last fall ordered a defender built for himself alone...
...been to build up to the limit of waterline length allowed by Class J specifications. When Rainbow (82 ft.) proved faster than Vanderbilt's 1930 Enterprise (So ft.), it suggested that an even longer boat might be even faster. When Owner Sopwith, reasoning the same way, built Endeavour II four feet longer than Endeavour I, which was about the same length as Rainbow, Owner Vanderbilt's best move obviously was to follow his rival's lead-aware that, if the longer boat did not live up to expectations, the U. S. would still have Rainbow to fall...
Until this year, most U. S. Cup yachts were built not by single individuals but by syndicates. The Sopwith system is not to build single yachts but to maintain a flotilla. Towing Endeavour I to the U. S. is the motor yacht Viva II, owned by his friend Frederick Segrist, who will help foot Endeavour I's bills. Towing Endeavour II is the Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means...
...yachts. Currently the best America's Cup yachts are patterned after models which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important job was five U. S. destroyers (TIME, Nov. 23), Ranger, first America's Cup yacht in 25 years to have an all-steel...