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Jockeying for the start of the first of six races for a "women's national sailing championship" off Cohasset, Mass. last week, Skipper Lorna Whittelsey of the Indian Harbor Yacht Club's crew had a piece of hard luck. Two of the other six boats in the race-sailed by crews from Bellport, L. I. and Cohasset-collided with her, sailing broad off when she was closehauled. The judges disqualified Bellport. An Edgartown boat won, sailed by Clara Dinsmore. In the afternoon, with airs so light that the 17-ft. Manchester one-design sloops were sometimes impossible...
...boats crossed the starting line heeling in a brisk wind and it turned out to be the most exciting race of the series. Nereid II of Galveston rammed La Tortue, a French boat, causing Nereid II to be disqualified and Mrs. Judith Bailey-Balken. skipper of La Tortue, to flop into the water. Sparkler II of New Orleans lost its mast. On the Cene, of Seattle, a mainsail halyard parted and the crew repaired it just in time to reach the finish line at sundown. That a skipper in home waters has an immense advantage, any small-boat sailor knows...
...those occurring in the Woman's Singles, oddly enough. Following this race, in his capacity as referee, was James Roosevelt, eldest son of the President, and aided by his gallant crew in the Newell Boat Club motor launch, Red Top, he salvaged the beat, along with its skipper...
...Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade, smallest of the fleet of well-known ocean-going yachts, has functioned so efficiently that last week's statement by the skipper of the Flame amounts almost to a rule of ocean sailing. In 1931 the Stephens brothers won the Newport-to-Plymouth trans-atlantic race in 17 days, then won the biannual Fastnet race for the first time. Last year Dorade was first in her class in the New London-to-Bermuda...
...Sutherland served as ship's doctor on board the Empress of Britain, commissioned as an armed merchant-cruiser, served at other posts on sea and ashore. One night standing with the skipper on the bridge of a new destroyer, taking her speed trials in a full gale, he saw something bob past on the crest of a wave. "It had a lifebelt round its body, the face was that of a skeleton, but the scalp was intact and the sodden tresses of hair were black and very long...