Document No 2441: DEFENDER HOME FIRST - NEARLY 19 MINUTES AHEAD (2) | |||||||||||||||
REF : 0 EDITION : 1895 DATE : 29 Aug 1895 COURSE : 0 DESCRIPTION SITE : NOTES AMERICA-SCOOP : DEFENDER WINS EASILY; Beat the Vigilant Eighteen
Minutes, Three Seconds Over 24 Miles. SAILED IN VERY FLUKEY WEATHER Defender
Splits Her Jib in a Squall, but Was Handled with Fine Judgment. VALKYRIE FOLLOWS
THE YACHTSThe Defender and the Vigilant met in their second trial race yesterday, and, although the former won by 18 minutes and 8 seconds, over a triangular course of twenty-four miles, the America's Cup Committee decided to start them again to-day, chiefly because fluky breezes yesterday precluded the possibility of a beat to windward... LICENCE :Public domain |
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BATEAUX : DEFENDER VIGILANT | |||||||||||||||
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