Word: herreshoffs
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Another New York Syndicate, less overt about its membership, its plans. Probable designer-Charles Drown Mower or Charles Frederick Herreshoff (son of the late great James Brown Herreshoff, designer of the Resolute and its predecessors Vigilant, Defender, Columbia, Reliance...
...James Brown Herreshoff, yacht builder, inventor...
...rough weather. They sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered 800 miles and was making splendid headway, with her mainsail, foresail, forestay sail and jib set and full. Suddenly, a squall hit little Rofa...
...addition, the following men were elected to the Editorial Board. Westcote Herreshoff Chesebrough '30, of Boston, Theodore Hall Jr. '29, of Washington, D. C., Charles Staver House '30, of South Manchester, Conn., Ralph Blake Williams '30, of Dover, James Russell Smith '30, of Buffalo, N. Y., and Ernest Stent '29, of San Francisco...
Died. Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin, fourth Earl of Dunraven and Mount-Earl, 85, twice challenger for the famed America's (yachting) Cup (with Valkyrie II, 1893 and Valkyrie III, 1895, both designed by Watson; defeated respectively by Vigilant and Defender, both designed by Herreshoff) ; at London...