Word: rainbows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Trials. Most interesting to the committee was Harold S. Vanderbilt's brand new Rainbow. In the first race. Rainbow ghosted around a 17-mile course nearly three minutes ahead of Frederick H. Prince's Weetamoe. Gerard B. Lambert's old bronze Vanitie, built for the 1914 Cup races, which the War cancelled, came in far behind. Next day. Yankee, owned by a Boston syndicate and skippered by one-time Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, came out for the first time and lost to Vanitie while Rainbow was again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there...
...official, races have to be finished in five and a half hours. The fourth trial, in flickering airs, lasted longer than five and a half, but when it was over, yachtsmen were less sanguine than they had been about Rainbow. Weetamoe, sailed by Richard Boardman, had beaten her off wind and on over a 34-mile course, by a mile and a half. There was an 18-mile breeze, just the kind of weather Yankee likes, for the fifth race but Skipper Adams went to the Harvard commencement exercises while Rainbow nosed out Weetamoe...
...light drizzle cancelled the next scheduled run. When racing was resumed, Yankee won by 58 sec. over a 28-mile triangle. In a collision just before the start, Rainbow's bow made a dent in Yankee's bronze plating...
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...