Word: boated
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Motor Boat Show at the Grand Central Palace, Manhattan, last week, went many a prospective purchaser, many an idle gazer, many and many a small boy. Not many hardy sea-dogs attended, because an outstanding feature of the modern motor boat is its tendency to incorporate as much as possible of the simplicity, ease of handling and shiny finish of the motor car. Motor boats are sold not to sailors but to motor car owners and their families. To build a boat that a landsman can operate-and that in most cases he never will operate out of sight...
Weatherbeaten yachtsmen, grizzled veterans of the briny off-shore deep, were somewhat inclined to shake their heads over such cushy concessions to landsmen as wicker chairs, percolators, automobile steering wheels. Yet motor boat makers well retorted that the motor boat is a pleasure craft, that a large proportion of its buyers are looking chiefly for a seagoing automobile, that it is women who furnish the chief sales resistance and for whose sake galleys, for example, are sometimes described as "kitchenettes." It is with the amateur sailor that the future of the motor boat lies...
...halted their inspection tour at the exhibit of the Meteor Motor Car Co. of Piqua, Ohio, to look at the single Meteor model on exhibit. Persons acquainted with the Meteor Co., and with its president, Mau rice Wolfe, might have expected to see a hearse rather than a motor boat, for the Meteor Motor Car Co. is best known for its long production of medium-priced hearses, or, as they are known in mortuary circles, funeral cars...
Touring the Great Lakes last Fall in a Mathews cruiser, Mr. Wolfe noticed the large popular interest in motor boating and reflected that a standardized motor boat, built on a mass-production motor car basis, could be sold at a price within the reach of the moderately well-to-do. From this idea, with amazing rapidity, resulted the Meteor Runabout, a 27-footer which seats ten persons, makes 30 m. p. h. and sells...
...inverted-V bottoms,* the Sea Sleds keep their noses well out of the water, keep their passen gers free from flying spray. Model 18 is equipped with a demountable sliding cabin - a one-man top arrangement designed to combine the advantages of an open and of a cabin boat. It is equipped with toilet and kitchenette and, says its catalog description...