Word: saleema
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Meanwhile, off Sandhamn, Sweden, Sherman Hoyt of Manhattan sailed H. B. Plant's Saleema to win the first of a series of international six-metre yacht races for the Scandinavian Gold Cup. Close was the finish, with a Dutch boat second, a Finnish third, a Swedish fourth...
...boats owned by rich men. Slowly the little fleet beat toward a buoy close to a sandy bluff, rounded the buoy, sailed back to the Seawanhaka Club where at sunset a cannon went off. The two boats in the lead-the Lanai, owned by Harry L. Maxwell, and the Saleema, owned by H. B. Plant-were picked to compete in the six-metre races to be held in European waters this summer...
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