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 new rule this year put boats over 40 ft., instead of over 53 ft., in Class A. Yacht-Designer Olin Stephens' famed 52-ft. Dorade, winner of Class B in the last Bermuda race, last week finished fifth in Class A. Class B prize went to Russell A. Alger's Baccarat.

Rudolph J. Schaefer is president of F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. A rear-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club, he named his 56-footer after his two daughters, Edmee and Lucy. Skipper Alger, a Detroit socialite, is the grandson namesake of McKinley's Secretary of War.

Last week's fleet in their blue water race failed to encounter a mysterious school of whales reported by a fishing captain off the New Jersey coast, reported no fatalities. Most serious accident was one which befell Mason B. Rumney on the Baccarat. When a large wave hit the rudder, he was tossed into the cockpit by the tiller, broke two ribs. The Vamarie arrived with her radio set out of order, her navigating instruments broken by high seas. Slowest boats in last week's race were Robert P. Baruch's Zingara and Dainty, owned by a Bermuda blacksmith named Al Darrell. They were two days behind the winner.

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