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...Iselin will sail on Friday, April 10 to supervise the finishing operations on the ketch, Atlantis, which is being built in Denmark for the Woods Hole Institute. The 142 foot steel boat was put in the water recently but is yet far from completion. The ship when completed will be powered by a 300 horse-power diesel motor and four sails. Costing $175,000 the ketch will have two laboratories, ten tons of wire rope, and quarters...
Trip. Passengers on liners bound down the Solent from Southampton caught a glimpse last week of an ugly little sailboat with a short mast, rigged as a ketch, proceeding slowly a little in front of a steam yacht. It was Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock V on her way to the U. S., a trip which under the 1930 rules of competition for the America's Cup she must make on her own bottom. Her delicate racing sails had been replaced by coarse canvas, her mast shortened to almost half its length. In command wasCapt. Ned Heard, veteran...
Three Cornell men, Carl Weagant, Dudley X Schoales, Joseph Rummler, last summer after being graduated, sailed across the Atlantic in the 40-ft. ketch Carlsark. Last week they returned to Ithaca, N. Y., presented a slab of rock from Ithaca, Greece, hometown of their avowed exemplar, Homeric Odysseus, to Cornell's archeological museum, declared proudly that in exchange for the slab they had set up on the heights above Greek Ithaca a rock carried from Cornell's campus inscribed "CORNELL FOREVER...
...capital. He started a string of cinema theatres, married Osa Leighty of Chanute, lectured on South Sea life, edited cinema newsreels, then began explorations, taking pictures. When photographing dangerous animals, Mrs. Johnson, an expert shot, stands guard beside him. Once they spent 14 months cruising in a 30-ft. ketch with an engine so faulty that no one could sleep below on account of the fumes. Lashed to the hatch, they slept on deck through tropic storms. They say they spent one of the happiest times of their lives floating on a raft down a river in Borneo...
Into a harbor in the Azores last week sailed the Carlsark, 46 ft. ketch. Above the gleaming hull rose four tanned sailor-men-all from Cornell University. Carl L. Weagant, last year's football manager, of Douglaston, L. I., was the skipper. Said he: "My crew did not suspect my intention of crossing the Atlantic until we were halfway to the Azores, seven days...