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...Rainbow is selected to defend the America...
Behind that terse statement by the New York Yacht Club's selection committee last week lay 25 summer days of trial races by the three contenders off Newport, R. I. Last fortnight the weakest candidate, Frederick H. Prince's Weeta-moe, was eliminated. Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Rainbow settled down to the serious work of defeating Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and sailed by that fine old salt, onetime Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams...
...Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's America's Cup contender Rainbow: a 30-mi. race against Frederick Henry Prince's Weetamoe; in light winds, off Newport. After the race, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee announced that Weetamoe had been eliminated as a possible defender, waited to see what Yankee, winner of most of the trials, could do against Rainbow in a stiff breeze before making a final selection...
Contenders. Racing for the America's Cup cost approximately $1,000,000 an hour in 1930. Rainbow is considered by Harold Vanderbilt an economy boat. Using some of the equipment of Enterprise, the Cup defender which beat the late Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V in 1930, she cost only $5,000,000. Rainbow was built in 97 working days at the Herreshoff shipyards at Bristol, R. I. where Nathanael Greene Herreshoff, now 85 and retired, had designed and built five successful defenders. Rainbow was designed like Enterprise by William Starling Burrgess. She has seven suits of sails...
Challenger. A new rule for the America's Cup races gives the challenger the right to change entry up to within 60 days of the first race, if trials produce a faster boat than the one named in the challenge. While Weetamoe, Yankee and rainbow were racing off Newport last week, England was having America's Cup trials off Cowes. In three races, Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's new Endeavor, in which he and Mrs. Sopwith expect to cross the Atlantic this month, beat her trial horse, W. L Stephenson's Velsheda, twice. Unlike the Shamrocks...