Word: sailed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...sent her out to sea as a noble experiment. A week passed and they didn't hear from her whose name was Rofa, 50-foot schooner, smallest of four small schooners racing from Sandy Hook to Santander, Spain. Her rigging was peculiar-designed by Herreshoff, who learned about sails in Scandinavian fjords. On the morning of the seventh day out, she had covered 800 miles and was making splendid headway, with her mainsail, foresail, forestay sail and jib set and full. Suddenly, a squall hit little Rofa...
Capt. William Roos, of Pelham Manor, N. Y., owner of Rofa, lived to tell what happened: "The squall caught us with terrific force before we could shorten sail. The mainsail was first to go. It broke off with a great crash about 18 feet from the deck. The 50 feet of mast tumbled into the sea, carrying the heavy gear with...
...Everybody worked like beavers chopping away the gear and freeing the floating masts. Then we set up a low-rigged square sail which steadied the Rofa. The squall lasted 20 minutes and the weather was calmer for the rest of the day. As darkness began falling, we were aware that we had to get some assistance and we discharged six Very rockets...
...Wilson Howard, newspaper tycoon, glittering link of the Scripps-Howard chain, did not sail by the Leviathan. But Mrs. Howard and Daughter Jane sailed first class. Son Jack sailed as a steward, without telling his father...
Elena was the favorite. Guienerve was the largest. 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...