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...progress last week on the Atlantic was the first ocean yacht race from Hamilton. Bermuda, to Cuxhaven, Germany. Sailing the 3,000-mile course and expected to finish this week were twelve little boats, seven from Germany, two from the U. S.. one each from The Netherlands, Sweden, the Free City of Danzig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Fresh, Two Salt | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

...Over last week on the Pacific was the eleventh running of the second most popular ocean yacht race in the world, the 2,300-mile sail from California to Honolulu. Surpassed in numbers only by the famed Bermuda races, the Honolulu event was inaugurated in the same year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: One Fresh, Two Salt | 7/27/1936 | See Source »

Forty-three sturdy little sailboats stood out of Newport, R. I. last week, headed southeast across 635 miles of open sea for Bermuda. The biggest fleet ever entering an ocean race, the 43 sloops, schooners, yawls, ketches included many a new craft, many a famed oldtimer. Newest was Robert P. Baruch's 53-ft. sloop Kirawan, launched only a month ago. Most famed was Vadim Makaroff's 72-ft. adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ocean Race | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...year-old Alfred Fullerton Loomis, one of the most experienced ocean racers in the world. On a submarine-chaser during the War, Sailor Loomis has spent most of the years since then scudding about the world in small sailboats. A veteran of one transatlantic, two Fastnet, four Bermuda races, he is an accepted authority on small-boat sailing, the author of severa topnotch nautical books. Last week, as he stood on Brilliant's deck watching victory slip from his grasp, there was published in Manhattan another top-notch Loomis book, Ocean Racing,* the first thoroughgoing history of this hazardous...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Ocean Race | 7/6/1936 | See Source »

...Bermuda's government aquarium a pair of Galapagos penguins, presented by Vincent Astor three years ago and lately fed wheat-germ oil, produced two eggs, which both hatched last week-first captive penguin hatch recorded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jun. 8, 1936 | 6/8/1936 | See Source »

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