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Rainbow birthday marks end of an era in American sailing
A rescript recalls the 13 year old 1934 launching of Harold Vanderbilt’s Rainbow at Bristol Rhode Island and the Rainbow’s dramatic America's Cup victory over Sopwith's Endeavor. The piece notes the end of large wooden racing yachts after World War II and the auctioning off of Endeavor and Endeavor II in Portsmouth with no bids.
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Bristol
Rhode Island
Herreshoff
Harold Vanderbilt
T.O.M. Sopwith
Starling Burgess
Charles Nystrom
Newport
New York Yacht Club
America
England
Isle of Wight
Sir Thomas Lipton
Lipton
Ndseimat Ok
Core 5
New York Bay
Chamrock V
Enterprise
Vanderbilt
Rainbow
Endeavor
Ranger
Portsmouth
Virginia
Sopwith
Roosevelt
British Empire
United States
Brown Palace Hotel
Denver
Grand Lake
Colorado
Rhode Money Land