"DSK" wrote in message
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That's funny, considered a sissy race by those who couldn't win it? The
fact is that advances in technology made sloops faster than schooners by
the middle 1890s.

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.. Her captain (Angus Mc-something
IIRC) was a master racing skipper, an unusual skill among blue-collar
cargo & fishing sailormen.



The point was...the lace hanky crowd wouldn't go out to race in a 23 mph
breeze. Maybe they knew they couldn't win in a stiff breeze?

Bluenose's captain was Angus Walters.