TO RACE THE ENDEAVOUR

Hawera Star, Volume LIV, 20 April 1935, Page 13

TO RACE THE ENDEAVOUR

AME RICAN FOR ENGLAND. ENTHUSIASM ALREADY EVIDENT. Gerard 8.. Lambert, wdio has sailed the Vanitie a number of years and now has purchased the Yankee, expects to take the latter to England and race the America’s Gup challenger, Endeav our, of last fall and other 'British yachts, including King George’s Britannia, next summer, states a New York correspondent. Lambert has made no announcement further than a statement that he might send Yankee abroad. * Ine is expected from him shortly. Yankee is at Lawley’s shipyard in Neponset below Boston w r here its interior is being remodelled in full British fashion with comfortable cabin. In the meantime Lambert has let it be known that he wanted to know what the possibilities were of cup yacht racing in the United States of America next summer before making up his mind what to do with Yankee. H. Prince owner of Weetamoe, has placed it in commission each year. Itj has been expected that lie would fit it out again with Harold S. "Vanderbilt sailing it. There seems no prospect of Vanderbilt putting the Rainbow overboard. Mr Prince is in France.

Possibility of the Yankee going abroad h'as stirred great enthusiasm in England. No large American sloop has raced in English waters for 41 years. In 1894 the cup. defender Vigilant, was taken over by the late George Gould. That was the year following its successful international cup. match off Sandy Hook. It then was beaten by the Britannia, which was owned at that time by King Edward VII., then Prince of Wales. King George has ordered further renovations in the time-honour-ed royal racing yacht in the expectatios that it will meet the Yankee.

In 1928 there was a prospect of a large American sloop racing abioad. That was when it was proposed to take the Katoura overseas. Two large yachts were built to meet it. They were' the Astra and Cambria. Katoura did not come up to expectations and the plan was not carried 'through;