Word: leeward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...junior event Cornell is first, Harvard second, and Tech third. In the matter of lanes however, there is little advantage, there being no leeward or windward positions. The water is brought for everyone, or the water is smooth for everyone. The only ones who really suffer from the wind are the spectators, that is, if the wind is accompanied by rain, for the observation train here is exposed to the elements...
...raced for the big silver cup the Johnson brothers, Graham and Lowndes, of Easton, Md., won last year in New Orleans with Eel. The boats were Stars?the most popular class of racing sloops in the world, 22 ft. 7½ in. long, Marconi rigged. Sometimes they went windward and leeward off Gibson Island Clubhouse, to a buoy and back, and sometimes around a little triangular course in which they turned eight buoys although the course totaled only 10? mi. Stars are fast in light airs, but on the Chesapeake they had two days of strong racing weather. On the last...
Then suddenly, as it often does on the New England coast, the fog began to lift under a six-mile north by east wind. The committee boat announced the course: leeward 15 mi. to the tug Thomas F. Moran, 15 mi. back into the wind to Brenton's Reef. Majestically the high-rigged contenders sailed up to the line, broke out their ballooners and the race was on. Enterprise led off, steadily increased her lead to 50 yd. An hour later Captain Heard, taking advantage of a favorable blow, sailed up bow to bow with the defender. Then Enterprise...
...days before, a hurricane from the South Caribbean struck and nearly demolished the tiny island of Dominica in the British Leeward Islands. It was moving northwest, very slowly. Next day its centre was reported 100 mi. southwest of Porto Rico. On the second day it was right under Santo Domingo and almost stationary. Would it blow itself out at sea? Would it turn south toward Panama? Would it strike...
...trousers, a canvas hat, a blue shirt with a red necktie, made Yankee look smart beating Enterprise the first day. Yankee carried a single big jib and jib topsail in place of her usual double head rig. Her weakness with this rig was that she sagged off badly to leeward. Whirlwind's trouble was an addiction to bad starts. On the second day, racing Yankee, Skipper Paul Hammond on Whirlwind left the straight course and veered toward shore looking for a wind, found one, beat Secretary Adams in by nearly eight minutes...