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...trim Yankee sloop, slashing relentlessly through 22-knot winds which sometimes raised waves as high as six feet, handed Sceptre her third straight setback...
...daring majority of crews broke out their spinnakers. The billowing kites caught more wind than they could handle. The U.S. Naval Academy's 44-ft. yawl Fearless was knocked down and her decks rolled under white water until she finally worked free. The 45-ft. sloop Sirius lost her spinnaker over the side and caught the waterlogged tangle with her keel. Two days later the Finisterre had spinnaker trouble too. Despite an elaborate net of lines designed to keep it from fouling, the soaring, cranky sail yanked loose and fouled blocks at the head of the mainmast...
...Beating to windward in light air, American Skipper Warner Willcox eased his sleek, 33-ft. International Class sloop into a commanding lead, finished well ahead in the last of seven races to lead his team to victory over the Bermudians for the 51-year-old Amorita Cup, grand prize of Bermuda Race Week...
...legal precedents that apply to Orval Faubus v. the U.S. reach all the way back to a September night during the Revolutionary War when a Connecticut fisherman named Gideon Olmstead, two seamen and a boy, imprisoned aboard the British sloop Active, rose up and overpowered 14 British sailormen and captured the ship for the 13 states. Couple of days later the heroes were themselves chased, caught and captured, not by the British but by the armed brig Convention, in the service of Pennsylvania. They were hauled into the port of Philadelphia, where the admiralty court ordered the vessel sold...
...Tony Trabert beat Hoad, then Gonzales whipped the new boy, 9-7, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3. ¶ Sailing in the Trans-Pacific yacht race from the Los Angeles coast to Honolulu, Skipper Charles Ullman frantically hunted for a winning wind, first tacked south with his soft. sloop Legend, then north, then south again, finally found a fair wind, nipped across the finish line off Diamond Head last week with a winning corrected time of 11 days 41 min. 41 sec., logging 2,407 miles over the 2,225-mile course. "We went looking for the fastest winds...