Word: boatings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stars. Most popular of international racing yachts, Star boats are 22 ft. long, cost around $1,500, are descended from a seafaring line of Sharpies used for gathering oysters on Long Island Sound a hundred years ago. Winner last week was Stanley Ogilvy's Jay, a boat that is likely to compete in the International championship, No. 1 event for Star boats the world over, to be held off San Diego in September...
...days before 1929, Race Week at Larchmont was the rendezvous for big-boat yachtsmen, and America's Cup sloops (with crews of 25 or more) mingled with the small fry. But the day of million-dollar racing yachts has apparently passed. Biggest news, therefore, that came out of last week's regatta was the announced plan to send a fleet of four U. S. Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger...
...Reventlow swore out a warrant for her estranged husband's arrest, when & if he should set foot in England. Her charge: The Count, whom she is trying to divorce in Denmark, had threatened her with bodily harm. The Count, in Paris, ordered his luggage packed, took train and boat to London. Scotland Yard officials politely whisked him to famed old Dickensian Bow Street Police Court, where his lawyer, Norman Birkett, who got the Duchess of Windsor her divorce from Mr. Simpson, asked to have the case postponed. Agreeing, the Chief Magistrate stipulated that: The Count must...
...Irish lad, is that possessed of the sea that his mother's heart sometimes aches. Since he was a shaver along the Santa Cruz waterfront, on California's Monterey Bay, fishermen had taught him the ways of sailing, knew him as a lad to trust with a boat. But no boy with the sea in his heart can scan the horizon long without yearning. Lyle Tara yearned to sail the 3,000-odd miles to Cocos Island, off the Costa Rican coast, where legend says pirates of the Spanish Main used to bury Inca gold. Into the pattern...
...Then, 28 days later, the Tira heeled swiftly down Banderas Bay into Puerto Vallarta, 2,000 miles from Santa Cruz, on the west coast of Mexico. News travels slowly from Puerto Vallarta, an isolated fishing village hemmed in by coast ranges, but last week the captain of a tuna boat radioed a brief account of the Tira's odyssey. Although the Tira had an auxiliary Diesel motor, the boys had journeyed entirely under sail. After many days at sea they put in at Magdalena Bay, near the tip of Lower California, but the Mexican coast guard sent them...