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...boats, Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, and E. Walter Clark's Resolute, both sailed by their owners. There was only one interesting moment-the comparison between Enterprise and Whrlwind on the second tack, the first pointing closer into the wind but Whirlwind showing a fuller mainsail. Enterprise had slipped away in the low breeze like a bird and, running far in the lead, hung over her taffrail in mockery her harbor sign, "Please Keep Astern." She beat Vanitie by 6 min. 29 sec.; the rest trailed in well-beaten...
...reached Bermuda (16 days out of Manhattan), the Firecrest had to be completely overhauled. From Bermuda, Gerbault headed through the Caribbean and the Panama Canal to the Galapagos Islands. One day after he left Galapagos, a bonito, 35 lbs., tried to jump over the boat, stunned itself against the mainsail, made Gerbault many a good meal. In the tropics Gerbault wore few clothes, never a hat; the sun tanned him but never struck him down...
...foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered 800 miles and was making splendid headway, with her mainsail, foresail, forestay sail and jib set and full. Suddenly, a squall hit little Rofa...
Capt. William Roos, of Pelham Manor, N. Y., owner of Rofa, lived to tell what happened: "The squall caught us with terrific force before we could shorten sail. The mainsail was first to go. It broke off with a great crash about 18 feet from the deck. The 50 feet of mast tumbled into the sea, carrying the heavy gear with...
Thus wrote Walt Whitman and thus Sculptor Jo Davidson has modeled him, stepping with a fine stride, his long greatcoat billowing out in his van like a useless, gallant mainsail. The design was chosen last week as the best of those submitted for the Walt Whitman Memorial which is to be erected in Manhattan by the Authors' Club. The design will soon be shown at a Whitman exhibition in the New York Public Library...