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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...
...surprising series in many ways ?one that made it hard for the yachtsmen peering through glasses from the committee boat to tell which contender they liked best. In the windward and leeward tests, Enterprise was at its best in a light breeze, swift into the wind but slow off it. In calm weather on the third day of racing she beat Whirlwind nicely, but her victory over Yankee in the fourth race did not mean much as Yankee's jib ripped open on the second leg. The men on the committee boat did not see the jib tear...
...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...
...quarter of one, an explosion, probably in the basement of the building catapulted a veritable geyser of flame and black smoke high into the heavens, spraying with a shower of glowing embers the spectators and Business School buildings, which were to the leeward of the raging inferno. Bright, sporadic flashes of newspaper photographers' powder charges lent a Fourth of July twist to a typical New England winter night. By 1.05, half a dozen hardy firemen drew a cheer from the throng when they struggled on the lean-to roof behind the central section of the doomed building carrying with them...