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...Yankee left her berth at Lawly's Yard at Neponset, Mass., and with two tenders Doodle and Dandy risked thick fog to join the other America's Cup Defenders at the western end of Long Island Sound last week. While she stood by during three races, George Ratsey looked over her sails, which he had built at his City Island lofts. (He also made the sails for the other defenders.) Fortunately for the Yankee, she rode quite a distance away from the Robert Jacob shipyard on City Island. Fire damaged that yard's pier. It destroyed about...
...against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V. Each yacht costs about $200,000 to build, $150,000 to equip, $200,000 to run for a summer. Already Enterprise has five suits of sails. Sails for all the "J" boats are made at City Island by Ratsey & Lapthorn, Inc. Each boat has a crew of 36 big-eating seamen and a fleet of satellites - a towing tender, a mothership or houseboat with quarters on it for the crew, launches for the owners. When they lie off Newport each will have a shore telephone connection...