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Enterprise, defender of the America's cup in 1930
Immediately after the first meeting of the America's Cup Committee, Vice-Commodore Aldrich set about forming a syndicate of seven members: Vice-Commodore Winthrop W. Aldrich, Commodore Vincent Astor, Commodore George F. Baker, Jr., Captain Floyd L. Carlisle, Commodore E. Walter Clark, Commodore Harold S. Vanderbilt.
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W. Starling Burgess was requested to design and the Herreshoff Manufacturing Company to build the boat. Enterprise's lead keel was cast on October 5, 1929. She was in frame by February 1, 1930, plated by March 25, and decked by April 3.
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The huge J-boats of the 1930s sacrificed simplicity to the demands of speed. To handle the large sails, the crew needed a great variety of special gear. While it was possible to trim small staysails on a simple winch, genoa and quadrilateral jibs were so big they had to be sheeted home by means of multigeared pedestal winches nicknamed coffee grinders because of their large cranks that could be turned by four men at once.
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X3D is an open standard for 3D content delivery. It is not a programming API, nor just a file format for geometry interchange.
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The British Pathé website hosts the very best of pioneering video journalism. British Pathé is considered to be the finest newsreel archive in the world. The entire archive of 85,000 films is available to view for free on the British Pathé website.
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Published 1931 by C. Scribner's Sons in New York, London.
Written in English.