Word: naitamba
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...auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California to Hawaii race since it was first sailed in 1908. They...
...boats that carried a radio transmitter. Halfway across, she sent a message: "All aboard Manuiwa are well but worried about where our competitors may be." Honolulu was also sufficiently worried to send navy planes out to search for five boats that had not yet finished: Scaramouche, Viva, Queequeg, Naitamba, Common Sense. But they all arrived safely...
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