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...Shamrock IV won the first two of a three-out-of-five series off the Jersey coast. The New York Yacht Club's steamer, crammed with spectators on the first two days, did not even set out to watch the third contest, so sure seemed the result. But Skipper Charles Francis Adams of Boston, sticking close to windward of Shamrock and keeping her canvas almost empty, sailed Resolute home in front, then won the next two races. That is the closest Sir Thomas, or any other challenger, has ever come to winning the 100-guinea flagon...
...below, where some of the rigging comes down through the hollow metal mast; on deck, where many new mechanical gadgets are?the "sliding-foot" boom, the instrument for indicating windstrain on the mast?that caused his boat to be called "mechanical" by conservative sea-dogs. Aboard the shiny green Shamrock V Edward ("Ted") Heard, Sir Thomas's professional Captain, looked his boat over. She had not many gadgets, but her aged owner, on his Erin, had a good-luck message from President Cosgrave of the Irish Free State in his pocket...
...Boats. Critics who say Shamrock V has no chance think so because: 1) Under the rules of the America's Cup races she crossed the ocean on her own bottom and had to be rerigged when she got here, while the Enterprise has been tuning up all summer. 2) She is sailed by an Englishman unfamiliar with the ocean at Newport, while Skipper Vanderbilt has sailed at Newport since boyhood. 3) She is sailed by a professional, and professionals as a class are rarely as resourceful as amateurs...
...thing no one argues-Shamrock V is handsome. Hers is a gull-shaped green body, striped with a white boot-top at the waterline, the light swell amidships giving a look of speed. Mahogany over a steel frame, with keel, stem, and sternpost of wood, a dagger-plate centreboard streamlined and built of teak, plated with bronze. Her hull measurements are within a fraction of an inch the same as Enterprise's; she carries 16 square feet less sail and has a little more displacement. She can ride an English chop on a reach and pull before the wind...
...changes and repairs. Being launched early enough to get her sails in beautiful trim for the trials was one reason why Enterprise beat the other U. S. contestants, Weetamoe, Yankee, Whirlwind, for the right to defend the Cup. In the first trials on the Sound she proved that like Shamrock V she was a ghoster...