The morning's wind was not as strong as that of the afternoon, but nevertheless provided sufficiently good sailing wind to enable the class: to essay a longish course downriver to No, 44 buoy off Point Island. The start saw the eleven boats stretched across the river with Berents gettin a leeward start in the slacker water inshore on the Shanghai side as the flood was making. Bridget and Sun Lee, more out in the middle of the river passed and repassed each other, but Eileen sailed through everyone's lee and established a lead by the mark buoy.
It had been a reach, almost close-hauled going downriver, but once they rounded the mark, there was not quite as much necessity to point in making upriver again. Sun Lee had mone about on the buoy earlier than Bridget, but the latter passed her on the latter stages of the return journey and just managed to oust her from second position, Daphne, Catharine and Shimurali all having a close struggle.
In the afternoon the wind had strengthened and the ebb was running with considerable force. The class was sent out from the flagship on an upriver course making to No. 10 buoy and here again, Berents took Eileen close in on to the Shanghai side risking the blanket of the large ships lying at anchor in midstream and gaining the benefit of ihe slacker water. This paid as it proved for the others, out in midstream where they had to buck the full force of the tide did not make mearly as good headway,
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.