Word: fogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...read with much interest in the Sport Section of the July 27 issue your article covering the Honolulu race, and how through the efforts of Clarence W. MacFarlane the initial race from San Pedro was originally started. It was my pleasure to pick him up in a very dense fog, board his schooner and pilot him into San Francisco that memorable morning in 1906 when he arrived from Hawaii. It may be of interest to you and perhaps some of the old-timers in the yachting fraternity to know the true facts in this rather peculiar occurrence...
...many of the old-timers will remember, we had no auxiliary power, as sailors, men of the old school felt they could put their vessels into most any place they desired under their own sail by the old fashioned method known as "jayhawking." Drifting through the Gate a dense fog came in and I suggested to my companion that as long as we were out there we might as well keep on going and come in on the flood tide and breeze the next day. We sailed around all night between the San Francisco lightship and the Faralone Islands, twice...
...thick fog that covered the Straits of Gibraltar, 3,800 rebel soldiers, of whom 1,000 were Moorish tribesmen, were run past the blockade of Spain's loyal navy in a fleet of fishing boats, mail boats and tenders. Said the captain...
...Lockheed-Electra City of Memphis was on its regular run from New Orleans to Chicago, Chicago & Southern Air-Lines' sole route. At St. Louis, motors and controls were examined, found perfect. After getting a weather report which noted a 2,000-ft. ceiling at St. Louis, low-lying fog along the way and unlimited visibility at Chicago, the City of Memphis had soared off into the dark at 9:56 p. m. with a fresh pilot, a copilot, six passengers. One of the latter was Captain Vernon C. Omlie, oldtime flyer and husband of equally famed Aviator Phoebe Omlie...