Word: rig
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...crews, skippers, and syndicates of Weetamoe and Yankee felt that if Shamrock V had stayed in New London instead of coming to Newport the trials might have gone on. Shamrock had scared the committee by showing what she could do in light winds. One day, out to stretch her rig, she whisked under her own power through the entire U. S. defense fleet which lay so becalmed that they had to have launches tow them into port. Meanwhile, Sir Thomas Lipton continued to live quietly on his yacht Erin, going ashore seldom, once to motor around Ocean Drive with Mayor...
...observation" races of U. S. Cup contenders ended inconclusively. Enterprise proved her ability to move in light airs beating Whirlwind easily and making better time than Weeta-moe, which beat Yankee. Next day Whirlwind was withdrawn and her owners held discussions with Designer L. Francis Herreshoff about changing her rig. The other three boats sailed together. In a smart racing breeze, over a deep groundswell with a chop on top of it, Yankee's broad hull rode away from Weetamoe with Enterprise third...
Charles Francis Adams, Secretary of the Navy, usually in a brown sweater, white trousers, a canvas hat, a blue shirt with a red necktie, made Yankee look smart beating Enterprise the first day. Yankee carried a single big jib and jib topsail in place of her usual double head rig. Her weakness with this rig was that she sagged off badly to leeward. Whirlwind's trouble was an addiction to bad starts. On the second day, racing Yankee, Skipper Paul Hammond on Whirlwind left the straight course and veered toward shore looking for a wind, found one, beat Secretary Adams...