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...London clubs, in Paris bars, in Manhattan cafeterias? asked, rather incredulously than inquisitively: "Will he [Sir Thomas Lipton] challenge again?" Last week, this question was answered. Arriving in the U. S., Sir Thomas said that he would challenge. True, certain formalities must be executed first. Even now international yachtsmen are holding in London a congress (as grave as only a congress that deals with sport can be) to determine whether the next race will be "in sloops* or schooners?." "When they settle that," said Sir Thomas, "I will challenge, allowing adequate time for the ten months' notice required by international...
...Oyster Bay, L. I., British and U. S. yachtsmen ran up the sails of their two quartets of 6-meter yachts, thrashed up and down Long Island Sound practicing for the International Races to be held there under the auspices of the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club beginning Sept...
...Yachtsmen were somewhat surprised at the absence of a Herreshoff-designed boat among those picked. The Herreshoffs of Bristol, R. L, are descended from an ancient line of New England boatbuilders. John B. (died 1915) blind from boyhood, was a great ship-designer and head of the firm, but it was Captain "Nat" Herreshoff (brother of John) who made the name famous. He invented a cata maran that sailed 21 m.p.h. He also introduced the "fin" keel for racing sloops, now used the world over...
When Sir Thomas Lipton offered a trophy to be competed for by the fishing fleets of New England and Canada, enthusiastic shouts arose from the throats of American yachtsmen from Eastport to Key West. It was most earnestly hoped that the fisherman's races would not degenerate into a series of the comic opera flascos that marked the course of the contests for the America's Cup some seasons age. Then, it will be remembered, conditions had to be exactly right; the sea could not be too choppy, yet there had to be enough wind to make it a race...
...mention the detailed tactics required for the peculiar warfare in which they were to be employed. The entire fleet did not contain more than one percent of graduates of Annapolis or five percent of experienced sailors. Practically all, officers and men, were civilians, a few more amateur yachtsmen, but the bulk of them were American college undergraduates. "Boys of Yale, Harvard, Princeton-indeed practically every college and university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses, and abandoned their athletic fields, eager for the great adventure against the Hun". That they at first knew...