Word: makaroff
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...most hazardous, certainly the least comfortable sport in the world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade, was sailing...
...fences to hold the crowd back, the two fought through one of the brilliant finishes for which the Maryland Hunt Cup is famed. When it was over, Hotspur II was still leading, by less than half a length. Fifteen lengths behind, the two other finishers straggled home-Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo and Benjamin Leslie Behr's Outlaw...
...Admiral Stefan Makaroff, commanding the Russian fleet in the Pacific, was the hero of a celebrated marine catastrophe when he went down with his ship in one of the early battles of the war with Japan. His son, Vadim Stefan Makaroff, first arrived in the U. S. in 1917 as assistant naval attache at Washington, returned to help Admiral Kolchak fight the Bolsheviks. Back in the U. S. in 1921 to get a job. he worked for Midwest Refining Co., helped introduce the diamond drill, perfected a system of freezing orange juice in paper containers, organized Makaroff & Co. which became...
Last week 42-year-old Vadim Stefan Makaroff upheld family tradition by becoming the hero of a marine contest quite different from the sort in which his father specialized. Sailing his beautiful 72-ft. mahogany ketch Vamarie, he won the annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana yacht race (284 mi.) with an elapsed time...
...them emerge from the blue blank of ocean, swinging up, one by one, over the hot horizon toward St. David's Head. First boat to cross the finish line in the 650-mile race from New London to Bermuda was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Vadim Stefan Makaroff. On corrected time. Vamarie was beaten by a three-week-old sloop that finished five hours later, Rudolph J. Schaefer's Edlu. A new rule this year put boats over 40 ft., instead of over 53 ft., in Class A. Yacht-Designer Olin Stephens' famed 52-ft. Dorade, winner...