Word: crafts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...Called the "World's Fastest Stock Runabout" is the Baby Gar "50," built by famed Speeder Gar Wood. The "50'' will do 50 m. p. h.; the "55" (the same boat with a more powerful engine) will make 55. Swift, too, are Chris-Craft runabouts, the Chris-Craft Sport Hydroplane also reaching the 55 m. p. h. mark...
...issue of Dec. 1927, page 802. The Ondine was not the newest; six submarines have been launched since the date of launching the boat in question, between the eighth of May 1925 and the thirty-first of August 1928. And it was not best since it was only a craft of 600 tons, therefore inferior to six other submarines in active service at the time of the accident. Yours for greater accuracy in foreign news...
...bill calls for 15 cruisers and an air-craft-carrier, to cost...
...less than in the U. S., but there is a 30% tax on foreign-built yachts. U. S. architects are giving an increasing amount of business to U. S. shipyards because they have demonstrated their ability to build yachts more luxurious and equally as sturdy as German-built craft...