Stormy Weather

Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that meant nothing. Five hours later, a smaller boat, the yawl Stormy Weather, followed Vamarie, over which her time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially over. In Bergen, crews which had just finished the first transatlantic race since 1931, and the longest (3,050 miles) in history, settled down to wait for their four defeated rivals, only one of which had been sighted since the start.

Four days later they learned that the ketch Hamrah had dropped anchor at Sydney, Nova Scotia. Of her crew of six, three young New Englanders survived. They told how, eleven days out of Newport, her socialite owner and skipper, Robert R. Ames, had been washed overboard in a boiling mid-Atlantic sea. His Son Richard went after him with a line, was followed by Son Harry in a boat, which capsized. With Hamrah partly disabled, the survivors hove to for two days. Then Charles Tillinghast Jr. took the helm, managed to remember how to lay a course by a sextant, brought the ketch limping in to Sydney ten days later.

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