Word: reefs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Named after the schooner in Longfellow's "Wreck of the Hesperus." At the mouth of Gloucester harbor is ''the reef of Norman...
...swell. Ships bells on scores of pleasure craft and naval vessels clanked off the half hours. Over on the Nourmahal the Astors felt sticky; so did the Morgans on the Corsair, the Manvilles on the Hi-Esmaro, the Jameses on the Aloha. You could not see to Brenton's Reef Lightship, 9 mi. northwest of the starting line; you could hardly see as far as the Committee boat. It looked like...
Then suddenly, as it often does on the New England coast, the fog began to lift under a six-mile north by east wind. The committee boat announced the course: leeward 15 mi. to the tug Thomas F. Moran, 15 mi. back into the wind to Brenton's Reef. Majestically the high-rigged contenders sailed up to the line, broke out their ballooners and the race was on. Enterprise led off, steadily increased her lead to 50 yd. An hour later Captain Heard, taking advantage of a favorable blow, sailed up bow to bow with the defender. Then Enterprise...
...Corsair (IV), enormous $2,500,000 yacht of John Pierpont Morgan, with Mr. and Mrs. Junius Spencer Morgan aboard, shelved herself on Lobster Rock, a reef in Gilkey's Harbor, Maine. Next morning at high tide two tugs heaved sturdily, budged her not. At evening high tide two tugs and a coast guard cutter heaved mightily, floated her free. Mr. Morgan received the news at Gannochy Lodge in Forfarshire where he had gone for the grouseshooting...
...brain busy behind his square, high forehead, prodding out through his pince-nez, the U. S. looks as the course signals go up on the committee boat in answer to a southwest September wind and the two sloops put over the line, from Brenton's Reef to sea, from sea to Cuttyhunk...