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...syndicate undertook to raise $400,000, which is $200,000 less than Enterprise cost. Proposed $40,000 shares were split down to $4,000 units, but, even so, subscriptions were slow. To avoid further delay members of the syndicate underwrote the whole sum, gave the word to the Herreshoff Yard in Bristol, R. I. to go ahead...
...Herreshoff workers had been waiting for weeks. On its own initiative the company had laid down the new boat's lines in the mold loft, ordered lumber and lead. On the syndicate's say-so the first frames for the hull were bent last week...
Sunk. On a reef off Cape Fear, N. C.: the famed Ingomar, once one of the world's finest steel schooners, built by Herreshoff in 1903 for Morton Plant whose skipper Charley Barr, with his customary long cigar in his mouth, was rammed by the Kaiser's Meteor when the Kaiser, at the helm, tried to substitute Royal prerogative for racing etiquet and kept across Ingomar's bow although he did not have right of way. Outmoded as a racer, Ingomar was owned for a while by the late great Marcus Alonzo Hanna's sporting...
Tests. Off Newport the "observation" races of U. S. Cup contenders ended inconclusively. Enterprise proved her ability to move in light airs beating Whirlwind easily and making better time than Weeta-moe, which beat Yankee. Next day Whirlwind was withdrawn and her owners held discussions with Designer L. Francis Herreshoff about changing her rig. The other three boats sailed together. In a smart racing breeze, over a deep groundswell with a chop on top of it, Yankee's broad hull rode away from Weetamoe with Enterprise third...
...members of the owning syndicate. Jane Nichols, small granddaughter of Mr. Morgan, had been told to swing the bottle hard, and did, but the Weetamoe stuck. She had been built on the ways and the wood had soaked up some of the grease. For two hours workmen in the Herreshoff yard in Bristol, R. I. hammered, sawed, used jacks. Still the Weetamoe stuck. A squall was coming up, the sun was going down. Workers and christeners went home, deferred the launching for two days. Finally afloat, the Weetamoe looked like a long-necked bird. Her line of keel, almost straight...