Word: mainsail
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boats as usual carried every stitch of canvas they had. Often The baud dipped her rail into the wash, but Bluenose, heavier and longer, stood up. Before long Thebaud pulled away. Her sails were better cut and set and she pulled smoothly into the wind; Bluenose's big mainsail was so ungainly that Captain Walters had to swing it by the topping lift; her topsails were shapeless sacks. When Thebaud had won the race, twice round the course with an extra lap up Gloucester harbor, by 15 minutes, Bluenose's sails were rushed to a loft...
William Saunders, steward on the Lucilla, was drowned. Tom Wright, seaman on Lord Waring's cutter White Heather, had both his legs broken in a squall. Three other yachts were dismasted or overturned. Britannia was kept out of the races one day with a split mainsail...
...long as there was wind enough to give her hull the headway it needed. She beat each of her rivals on the windward and leeward course and then won the first race on the reaching course. Racing Enterprise next day, Weetamoe blew out the duralumin headboard of her mainsail in a 17-mi. breeze, had to withdraw. Skipper Vanderbilt of Enterprise put about likewise, refused the hollow victory. Designer W. Starling Burgess went aloft in a bo'sun's chair to make sure Enterprise's rigging was shipshape. The halyard fouled and he was stuck at the masthead, red whiskers...
...bets are made, the two fish are dumped into one big bowl together. They charge furiously. First they rip off each other's ruby-red ventral fins which look like a sailboat's centreboard. Next to go is the red top fin which looks like a reversed mainsail. Frequently they bite off chunks of side meat, draw blood...
Third Race. Again five big sets of sails grouped; spread along the course, now off Oyster Bay. Weetamoe, handled by Skipper Nichols, again first crossed the finish line. Whirlwind, running close behind, split her mainsail, forced Skipper Langdon Thorne to allow the Enterprise to slip past into second place at the very end of the race. Third: Whirlwind. Fourth: Resolute. Fifth: Vanitie...