| Title: | SAILING |
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| Moderator: | UNIFIX::BERENS |
| Created: | Wed Jul 01 1992 |
| Last Modified: | Mon Jun 02 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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WITH RESTORATION, J-CLASS SLOOPS of 30's SAIL AGAIN
An article appeared today in The New York Times about the restoration
of "Shamrock v" and "Endeavor" being restored to sailing condition.
A match series is scheduled to be held off Newport, R.I. August
24 through 26th. Ifthis is sucsesful other races of these grand
old ladies will be held in NYC and Annopolis,Md. in Sept and Oct.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1256.1 | Not that clew, the OTHER clew! | AKOV12::DJOHNSTON | Thu Jun 22 1989 12:03 | 11 | |
In order to make the race a little fairer the woman who is doing
the Endeavour restoration is having new sails made for Shamrock
as well. Hood is doing the job. The mains are 5 times as big as
those built for maxi rater IOR boats!
One of the guys who sails with us (Tim Askew) is going to be trimming
the "upper clew" of Endeavor's jib (quadrilatoral jibs). Pretty
bizarre.
Dave
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| 1256.2 | ASHBY::NELSEN | Thu Jun 29 1989 16:14 | 21 | ||
We were docked close to Shamrock yesterday and I had a long discussion
to one of the people fitting it out. It is an amazing sight.
It has 3 sets of movable backstays, distributed along the mast. Major
modifications were done, including lowering and reducing the size of
the above-deck cabin, and replacing solid side rails with usual wire
lifelines.
It is painted the original dark shamrock green, apparently
characteristic of Sir Thomas Lipton's boats. And, of course, the
entire super structure is bright work except for the decks which are
teak.
Quite a sight. I suggest anyone who can to see it. It's now part of
the yachting museum there, so should become even more accessible in the
future.
/Don
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