Word: bronxonia
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Blum works in the Manhattan Department of Plant & Structures. His friend Abraham Rosenberg works for Manhattan Terazzo Brass Co. They go sailing at the Bronxonia Yacht Club, at Throg's Neck, N. Y. Last winter Nat Blum and Abraham Rosenberg wondered why they should not borrow their friend David Rosenstein's 49-foot ketch, the Curlew, and enter the annual race of the Cruising Club of America and the Royal Bermuda Yacht Club, from Montauk Point, L. I., to Hamilton. Cruising Club officials, examining the. boats for seaworthiness, paid special attention to the Curlew but finally decided...
...success, was preparing to make another flight when word came last week that the Curlew had been found by the Coast Guard cutter Marion. She was 80 mi. east of Nantucket, about 112 mi. further from Bermuda than at the start of the race. She was proceeding toward the Bronxonia Yacht Club at 3 m. p. h. The Marion escorted the Curlew into port at Newport...
...when we tried to put back, the wind shifted. This delayed us ... but we always knew where we were." One of the Curlew's crew, Attorney Benjamin Theeman, returned home by train. The others, after ramming and smashing a Newport wharf, successfully sailed the Curlew home to the Bronxonia Yacht Club...
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