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...with his father and brother Rod as crew members, astounded the blue-water racers by skippering his 52-ft. yawl Dorade to victory in a transatlantic race to England. The experience helped him go on to design deep-keeled, fast cruising yawls with flashy racing lines, such as Baruna and Bolero, and the shallow-keeled, sturdy Finisterre, that came to dominate blue-water racing against schooners and ketches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Gem of the Ocean | 9/22/1958 | See Source »

Your article on Henry B. Nevins was extremely good. It is unfortunate, however, that neither was the Baruna mentioned nor her picture printed ... In the 6-meter class you did not mention . . . Llanoria, which is the newest and best of the 6s he built. She was twice Olympic champion and winner of the One-Ton and Seawanhaka Cups...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...yawl Baruna was built by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard. For a picture of Nevins' Llanoria, on which Reader Roosevelt sailed as a crewman when she won her Seawanhaka trophy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Aug. 2, 1954 | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

...Henry C. Taylor's yawl Baruna, the 466-mile Newport-to-Annapolis race, over John Nicholas Brown's Bolero, last season's Bermuda race winner, by 14 min. 49 sec. (on corrected time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won | 7/2/1951 | See Source »

Prominent on the entry list are six entries from Great Britain, two from Argentina, as well as Henry C. Taylor's 71-foot, two time winning yawl, "Baruna," which took first in 1938 and 1948, and Howard Fuller's 57-foot sloop "Gesture," winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yacht Club Has Boat in Newport-Bermuda Race | 5/31/1950 | See Source »

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