Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bluenose" and the "Thebaud" also present an interesting comparison with the recent J boat races for the America's Cup. With the sailing as it has been conducted off Newport refined to the point in which boats and men are made so sensitive they are almost machinelike, the champions of the Gloucester and Lunenberg fleets make a healthy contrast. There is no hierarchy of yacht racing associations, of new tank-tested boats every year. The false atmosphere of tailored yachting uniforms, professionals who groom the sleek boats for "amateurs" to take the tiller in the races and a society that...
...course covered by the field started at the Newell Boat House, rounded the Metropolitan Race Track, and finished at the Boat House. It was used in preference to the four and a half mile level course run in the past...
Candidates for crew who have been arranged in boat combinations to date...
Probably the most fortunate of all the yacht clubs on the Eastern seaboard, the Harvard Yacht Club came out of the recent hurricane with its fleet of three dinghies safely stowed in Weld Boat House...
Following the first fierce blow came tidal waves, several in succession to heights of 30 or 40 feet. Bath houses, boat houses, summer cottages, Coast Guard stations, long rows of squat and sturdy stores were swept away, hammered into high windrows of kindling wood or carried over whole to toss on the raging bay waters. Of 150 buildings in West Hampton Beach, six were left standing. In the bays, even in village streets on the mainland, drowning people screamed and struggled...