Word: sails
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cutter owned and designed by Charles E. Nicholson, who built Sir Thomas Lipton's last two Shamrocks. Two days later, the Flame blew into Cowes at dawn under a trysail because her mainsail had been ripped the day before. In an ocean race-where time allowances based on sail area, beam, displacement are made to give the smaller yachts an even chance-crossing the finish line first is usually brief satisfaction. Winner of last week's race was not the Flame but the trim 21-ton, 37-ft. yawl that followed her into port six hours later...
...Stephens brothers learned to sail off Barnstable, Cape Cod. They got their father, who owns a coal business in The Bronx, so interested in the sport that he became a vice-commodore of the Larchmont Yacht Club. Olin left M. I. T. after one year to help start, with a friend not much older than himself, the firm of Sparkman & Stephens, naval architects. Roderick got a job in a shipyard. Since Olin had the Dorade built from his own specifications in 1930, both of them have spent almost as much time on the water as at work. Consequently the Dorade...
...words I could assemble in a newspaper story could be of benefit to others who have no medium of being heard." Worn out by her civic labors, last April she and her "73-year-old sea captain father" set out in a 48-ft. schooner, the Black Hawk, to sail around the world. But two months later the Black Hawk fetched up on a sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said she: "Hell...
While other schoolboys were packing up to go home last month, a group at Tabor Academy was busy painting, rigging and bending on sails on a 90-ft. auxiliary schooner, the Tabor-Boy. Tabor is on Buzzards Bay, Mass., near an old whaling town. It was reorganized in 1916 by Headmaster Walter Huston Lillard. Dartmouth man and Oxonian who had been assistant to the headmaster of Andover since 1907. His 150 boys sail, row. cruise, hold cutter drills. Every spring they are taken on a cadet-training cruise to Central America. They may join a "Sea Scout" unit (nautical branch...
Long Dragon. Because the Yellow Dragon, broad and meandering, is too shallow for modern navigation, the commerce of the West courses into China chiefly up the Long Dragon, the Yangtze, which is deep enough for foreign steamers and war boats to sail 600 miles inland up to "The Chicago of China," Hankow. Last week the Yangtze rose at the rate of one foot per day until it was a foot higher than any dikes which existed two years ago, but still four feet below the tops of the 7,000 miles of new dikes built last year by hundreds...