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...performance of duty . . . the Coast Guard must stop, board and examine vessels. Because yachtsmen and amateur motorboat men . . . are law-abiding citizens, yachts and motorboats used solely for pleasure . . . will not ordinarily be stopped . . . unless suspicious circumstances warrant such action. . . . No person is safe to be entrusted with the navigation of any vessel who does not occasionally take a glance around the horizon. Such a proper lookout will disclose . . . any Coast Guard boat . . . signaling you to stop. The Coast Guard boat will use her whistle or horn or a megaphone or visual signals ... to attract your attention...
...pistol, Commodore Eldridge motored to an airplane, flew to New York, waited for the winner. From Albany to Manhattan the Hudson River measures 132¼ mi. Railroad trains cover the distance in three hours. By air it takes 90 min. The winner of last week's outboard motorboat race took 3 hrs. 36 min. 40 sec. When the yellow boat with its Johnson D motor reached 152nd St., Commodore Eldridge fired another pistol and black-mustached Jacob Dunnell of Boston had broken a record for the Albany-New York course. His average speed was 37.4 m. p. h. Honors...
...George W. Button Jr., of Manhattan and Darien, Conn., was master of ceremonies at a seaplane and motorboat regatta last week. He stood on the dock, signalled for the start, uttered a cry of sudden pain. A burning wad from the little brass cannon, used as a starting gun, had penetrated his left leg to a depth of one inch...
...background a smart summer town in Maine and for Claire's partner a youth whose adolescent romanticism is as vapid as a cloud. When, to impress his faithless inamorata, Nelson Smock paddled his canoe into the surf beyond the inshore calm, she, riding by in a motorboat with a different gallant, remained gay and callous. " 'Nelson,' Claire called, 'you have'nt any idea how funny you look...
Otto H. Kahn last week had delivered to him his new, triple-engined motorboat Okeha II, great, comfortable vessel, of the type that a score of Manhattan financiers have been buying to carry them swiftly from Long Island Sound summer homes to Manhattan docks. Mr. Kahn's boat cost him approximately $85,000; costs more than $100 daily to operate...