Word: windward
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...disappoint Skipper Konow the next day but the outcome of the race did. Just before the starting gun, when it was too late for Konow to follow suit, Skipper Shields broke out a long-tailed Genoa jib and under it his boat outfooted Norna all the way around a windward and leeward course. Next day, in a light breeze that favored the defender, she won again, this time with four minutes to spare. The last race of the series was sailed on one of those muggy, misty afternoons when a cat's-paw, brushing the surface of the Sound...
...Matter is marvellously interchangeable. If 34 drowned off the Windward Islands were eaten by sharks, they are, by now, part of numerous shark brains...
...From the Windward Islands comes an account of an excursion boat capsizing, with 'fears that sharks had eaten 34 that disappeared...
Sailing a triangular course, Endeavour jumped early into the lead, held it serenely down the 10-mile broad reach to the southward. In the beat to the windward, Rainbow with brilliant tacks that time & again outmaneuvered the Englishman, showed its stern to the challenger to round the second mark almost three minutes ahead. Despite a great flash of savage speed in the home stretch, Endeavour was unable to overcome the three minute handicap, trailed home by 55 sec. Because the protest flags were fluttering from both masts at the finish-why, no one immediately knew-what would have been...
...start of a race, Skipper Vanderbilt got Rainbow across within five seconds of the gun. Endeavour was a full minute behind. She had first hoisted a double-clew jib, then changed to a Genoa just before the start. On the 15-mile beat that started the 30-mile windward and leeward course, Rainbow tacked first, crossed Endeavour's bow, held her advantage in a tacking duel as they neared the turning buoy, rounded it almost three minutes ahead. Coming back before the wind, both boats broke out parachute spinnakers, took them in when the breeze, scarcely enough to ripple...