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Such was the fate of the Pinta, owned by Yachtsman W. J. Curtis, who last summer sailed his ship from New York to Santander, Spain, in a race for the Queen of Spain...
...lawyer, descendant of two U. S. presidents: "We never had more wind than we wanted and half the time we had hardly sufficient to shove us, but just the same it was a wonderful cruise and if we hadn't been racing it would have been perfect." Then little Pinta and Mohawk, big Guinevere and Zodiac, arrived at Santander. But no word had been heard from Azara, and little Rofa had been demolished in a squall (TIME, July...
...other small schooners in the race -Mohawk, Nina, Pinta - were nearing the coast of Spain, if the ocean was kind to them. Only Nina had been sighted, early in her voyage, by the Cunarder Aquitania (TIME, July 16). Elihu Root Jr., and Paul Hammond are in command of Nina. Their crew consists of eight young college graduates and undergraduates and a Norwegian cook. Said Mr. Root: "We rather expect to get wet. If the Nina runs into a storm, her crew will have salt water in their clothes, their food, their hair and their couch cushions...
...Atlantic had won the last ocean race in 1925. A radio from Elena said that she was sailing beam to beam with the Atlantic. Passengers on liners peered at the horizon hoping to see a sail full of wind and salty adventure. Four little schooners-Mohawk, Niña, Pinta, Rofa-had set out from New York to Spain, a week before. They were expected to reach Santander at about the same time as the big ones. Little Niña, impish, came within seeing distance of the Cunarder Aquitania...
...University. There are at present in Chicago three duplicates of the caravels of the fleet in which Columbus caravels of the fleet in which Columbus discovered America, brought over from Spain for the World's Fair at Chicago in 1893. With these three caravels, the Santa Maria, Pinta, and Nina, Mr. Stephenson and his companions plan to sail down from Chicago through the drainage canal and thence down the Mississippi, across the Gulf of Mexico, through the Panama Canal, and up the Pacific Coast to San Francisco. Mr. Stephenson wrote to the South Park Commissioners of Chicago, who have charge...