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...Metres. Almost twice the length of Stars and a quarter that of America's Cup yachts, six-metre boats are a Scandinavian specialty, cost about $8,000, first appeared in the U. S. in 1923. Winner last week was Briggs Cunningham's Fun, which won the series by just one point from George Nichols' Goose. Both will this week compete in the tryouts for the No. 1 international event for six-metre boats: the Scandinavian Gold Cup race to be held off Oyster Bay next month...
Twelve-Metres. Twelves are 68 ft. long, cost around $40,000, are popular in the Scandinavian countries and the British Isles. There are only a dozen Twelves in the U. S. Winner last week was Alfred Loomis' Northern Light which, although tied on total points with Frederick Bedford's Nyala, was awarded the championship because it had won two first places during the week to Nyala...
...million-dollar racing yachts has apparently passed. Biggest news, therefore, that came out of last week's regatta was the announced plan to send a fleet of four U. S. Twelves to England next spring for a brand new series of races against boats flying the British, Scandinavian, French, German and Italian flags. Because Britain's T. O. M. Sopwith, unsuccessful challenger for the America's Cup in 1934 and 1937, is racing a twelve-metre this summer, and Harold Vanderbilt, successful defender, tried a hand at sailing a Twelve, Van S. Merle-Smith's Seven...
...situation: 1) Recent restoration to power of aristocratic army leaders who, dreading Japanese adoption of Western ways, have from the start opposed the meet and its concurrent influx of Occidentals; 2) Fear of "losing face" in view of the threatened boycott of the Games by Great Britain, Switzerland, the Scandinavian countries, and probably others. Tokyo said it might ask for the Games...
Built and maintained by public subscription or private endowment, to train Scandinavian and Polish boys in seamanship, they carried from 80 to 100 youngsters on cruises on which the boys did all the work-"hand, reef, and steer, and keep the ship up." Because there were no able-bodied seamen aboard, the ships lay at anchor for the first part of the cruise, until the boys learned to handle them. Almost all the world's navies now train sailors on sailing vessels, but only in the Baltic countries are citizens interested enough to provide such training for the merchant...