The Waterbury Democrat., 1937-07-30
ADDITIONAL SPORTS
Today's Sport
 Parade
By HENRY McLEMORE
 tUnited Press Stan Correspondent,

(correct) detail, felt it my duty to gain a first hand knowledge of the waters they will sail. So, one hour after arriving in Newport, I rented a boat and, with gay wave at the enterprising naorticians who had gathered to see me of, set its prov toward the Atlantic ocean.
 The boat had no name so before setting sail broke bottle of Lydia Pinkham'S across its bow and cried ::
 T christen you Jitters the Sec ond."
 Jitters the Second is a catboat, so named because 8 cat, if 1t has no regard for creature comforts, can find room to set up light house. keeping.
 A single cat, that is. A married cat would find it too confining even if his family consisted only of a wife. and the dear little kittens were yet to come along.
 My catboat measured IA feet over all, counting the taffrail, which is the board in the back that holds the double clew jfb and jury scup- pers. I know its exact length be- cause one of the morticians, after measuring me for double-breasted bronze number. obligingly lent me his tape measure.
 While not quite as large as. Van- derbilt's Ranger or Sopwith's En- deavour (they measure nearly 90 feet in length) Jitters II carried enough sail to give the winds of the course a fair test. AS my No. 1 or "hot shot" sail I carried a quadri- lateral spinnaker with topsail and foretopsail attachments. For the benefit of my readers who are not familiar with yachting terminology, a quadrilateral spinnaker is roughly the size and shape of boy scout troop leaders tent, and topsail resembles a department stores handkerchief display. A fore topsail is very little different from the or dinary distress signal flown by we'll to-do marooned persons.
 Backing up these sails in the wind catching business had mainsail Chats the big one flies from the boom). a balloon jib, and stay sail, the latter being the familiar bit of cloth that hangs from the mast or flagpole.
 I started out Narragensett Bay on a broad reach. A broad reach is not to be confused with a gent reach. On a broad reach you head straight into the wind. avoiding as many shoals as possible. On a gent reach you tack-that is, you sort of sidle into the wind after the manner of horse when an automobile passes too close to him. In other words, a gent reach is the same as luff.
 When JitterS II reached the open sea the wind had freshened, and was coming straight out of NE by MS by FDR by WPA. Jitters II quickly took the bone in her teeth and began running before the wind. I took advantage of this quiet mo- ment to write in my log. I believe, extracts from it would give you a satisfactory account of the Amer ica's cup course, so, with your per- mission will quote:
 3::34 p. m.-Cracked on head by boom. Lots of seagulls around.
 "3:58 p. m.-Bagged an albatross.
 "4:10 p. m.-Had bite of the lunch sensibly brought with me. And liked everything but the peanut butter and olvie sandwiches. Am unable understand anyone thinking up such a combination.
 "5:17 p. mistakenly remembered had not made July payment on car and wondered if company would take it away in my absence.
 5:27 p. m. - Water now about three feet deep in bottom. Probably bilge water, which is always in boats.
 "540 p. m.-Water now four feet deep. Must not be bilge.
 "6:10 p. m. - Not bilge. Found whole plank missing Jitters II bot tom.
 "6:12 p. m.-Picked up by lobster fisherman. Be in tomorrow.
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