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...said was quite true and that as a matter of fact it was no secret that they put the Columbia in the water for that very purpose. ... I hope to challenge in 1932. . . .' Meanwhile on the Olympic arrived Captain Irving Johnson, mate of Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on the return voyage to England after the America's Cup races. He told briefly what can happen to a little sailing boat trying to cross the north Atlantic in October. "Seven times we scudded straight through hell and out again. ..." Shamrock left Narragansett...
...Shamrock's sail was down. Partly over the deck it lay, and partly in the sea. Some of the crew had been caught under it; some were on their feet, pulling at it. The sloop was coming up into the wind. The trouble was clear now: Shamrock's main halyard had snapped. "What a pity," said Sir Thomas Lipton as though to himself. He called his secretary, Major Westwood. "I wonder if anyone is overboard or hurt," he said. "See what you can get on the radio...
Skipper Vanderbilt too had been watching Shamrock closely. As the sail fell, he whipped Enterprise about. The committeemen were coming over in their boat. They shouted at Vanderbilt, telling him to go on. The rules of the America's Cup races provide that if one boat is disabled the other is awarded the race, whether or not she completes the course. Skipper Vanderbilt knew that, remembered how Shamrock IV had won the first race of the series in 1920 by a similar accident. He sailed over to Shamrock V and came around her to make sure no one was hurt...
...Thomas had put the Erin about. A black tug had taken the disabled Shamrock in tow and started back to Newport. Sir Thomas was cracking jokes. They told him that one of his guests, Miss Eugenie Whitmore of Omaha, had gone down to her cabin to cry. When she reappeared Sir Thomas cracked a couple of jokes especially for her. He insisted that the race counted and said his boat would be ready to race again next...
Last Race. The wind was west northwest. Skipper Vanderbilt kept away from Shamrock. He took a long time coming into the starboard tack and heading for the line, but still he was too soon and had to lose position running along the line waiting for the whistle. So Captain Heard won the start again. The first leg was to windward, to a buoy off Point Judith. Both crossed the line closehauled on the starboard tack with Shamrock about 200 yd. to windward. A minute after crossing the line Heard took the port tack and Vanderbilt followed him. Enterprise was footing...