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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...
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...
...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...
...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...
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...