Word: azara
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. George J. Baker of Detroit, Mich.,** Captain & part-owner of the trans-Atlantic racing yacht Azara (TIME, Aug. 13); after a sudden illness; on board his boat in the Guadalquivir River, Spain...
Twenty-seven days after she sailed from Sandy Hook, New York, Azara, a 113-foot schooner, hove languidly into sight of Santander, Spain, and was towed across the finish line. The winner of the race, Elena, had made the same voyage in 16 days, 21 hours (TIME, Aug. 6). Azara's major trouble was running into calm seas. In one four-day period she moved only 20 miles. But her owners, George J. and Francis E. Baker of Detroit, gallant sportsmen, refused to unseal her engines and use them, even though the fresh water supply was running...
...time we had hardly sufficient to shove us, but just the same it was a wonderful cruise and if we hadn't been racing it would have been perfect." Then little Pinta and Mohawk, big Guinevere and Zodiac, arrived at Santander. But no word had been heard from Azara, and little Rofa had been demolished in a squall (TIME, July...
...Guinevere was the disappointed Duke of Santa Mauro, who had been unable to get the Santa Maria, a Spanish schooner,* ready for the race. His companion, Enrique Careaga, went with the Azara...
...Azara (113 feet) - Francis E. and George J. Baker of Detroit...