Word: whirlwinds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tests. Off Newport the "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 Next day Whirlwind was withdrawn and her owners held discussions with Designer L. Francis Herreshoff about changing her rig.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...
...fourteen, Yankee from fourteen up. Yet this scale is not completely accurate: Enterprise, with her heaviest mast stepped in, heeled over to an 18-mi. breeze and scooted past the old Resolute in an early test on Long Island Sound. Weetamoe has beaten Enterprise in light air. Whirlwind, prettiest looking of all, will be changed a lot before the final tests beginning...
...yachtsmen peering through glasses from the committee boat to tell which contender they liked best. In the windward and leeward tests, Enterprise was at its best in a light breeze, swift into the wind but slow off it. In calm weather on the third day of racing she beat Whirlwind nicely, but her victory over Yankee in the fourth race did not mean much as Yankee's jib ripped open on the second leg. The men on the committee boat did not see the jib tear and were surprised when a newsman told them about it. Weetamoe was masterfully sailed...
...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 in by nearly eight minutes...
...Newport. Skipper Harold Stirling Vanderbilt won three more trial races with his America's cup yacht, Enterprise. Weetamoe beat her once but Enterprise made her default, protesting interference. Whirlwind went back to the shipyard to have her mast moved forward a bit, her underbody (hastily finished) scraped and repainted. Whirlwind was hopelessly beaten, Yankee still proved fast off the wind. So far Enterprise seems likeliest to meet Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V, though no trials have yet been sailed in a heavy wind. The formal elimination races come July 7 off Newport, the Cup races begin Sept...