Word: erine
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...miles on the windward leg before Skipper Vanderbilt caught up. Thrice they split tacks. Then Enterprise in the weather berth slid into her first lead. Her mechanical devices for sail-control again made her quicker coming about. Still, it was a good race, the closest yet, and on the Erin Sir Thomas Lipton was enjoying it. He was standing on the bridge, looking off at the boats, when suddenly he stiffened. He put up one of his big old hands to shade his eyes, and for a moment the other watchers, too, failed to understand what had happened...
...Thomas had put the Erin about. A black tug had taken the disabled Shamrock in tow and started back to Newport. Sir Thomas was cracking jokes. They told him that one of his guests, Miss Eugenie Whitmore of Omaha, had gone down to her cabin to cry. When she reappeared Sir Thomas cracked a couple of jokes especially for her. He insisted that the race counted and said his boat would be ready to race again next...
...instrument for indicating windstrain on the mast?that caused his boat to be called "mechanical" by conservative sea-dogs. Aboard the shiny green Shamrock V Edward ("Ted") Heard, Sir Thomas's professional Captain, looked his boat over. She had not many gadgets, but her aged owner, on his Erin, had a good-luck message from President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State in his pocket...
...remark on being shown the tea thrown overboard during the Boston Tea Party: "They had a lot of good sense. It wasn't Lipton's." He refers to the cup as "that old mug." In Newport he has kept much to himself on his yacht Erin. Last week he was seriously ill, result of overexertion which a recent operation forbade...
...light winds. One day, out to stretch her rig, she whisked under her own power through the entire U. S. defense fleet which lay so becalmed that they had to have launches tow them into port. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Lipton continued to live quietly on his yacht Erin, going ashore seldom, once to motor around Ocean Drive with Mayor Sullivan of Newport. Captain Ben Pine, owner of the fishing schooner Gertrude L. Thebaud, came to see him and Sir Thomas said he would put up a cup for the Gloucester fishing sloop races...