Sport: Blue Water Race

Into the soft summer mists that creep up Long Island Sound from the Atlantic 29 small yachts disappeared last fortnight off New London. Last week Bermudians saw them emerge from the blue blank of ocean, swinging up, one by one, over the hot horizon toward St. David's Head. First boat to cross the finish line in the 650-mile race from New London to Bermuda was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Vadim Stefan Makaroff. On corrected time. Vamarie was beaten by a three-week-old sloop that finished five hours later, Rudolph J. Schaefer's Edlu. A...

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