Word: seamanship
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...each other status quo. To all intents and purposes the fishing schooners of the North-eastern Atlantic fleets are practically alike. While nobody wants or expects a thirty-foot boat to be pitted against a fifty-footer, a race between the best of each fleet would certainly leave the seamanship to decide the issue. It is only a step from requiring change of sail areas to requiring changes of model, and then the evolution of the fishing smack to the fancy racing yacht will be well...
...Library Association. This body aims to place a library of about 80 volumes on each American merchant ship, and will try to collect at least 100,000 books during the drive. For its purpose, the most useful works are in the fields of flatiron, history, biography, travel, marine engineering, seamanship, and navigation, as well as books on English and citizenship...
...crews of these little vessels began their arduous service with absolutely no training in ordinary seamanship, not to mention the detailed tactics required for the peculiar warfare in which they were to be employed. The entire fleet did not contain more than one percent of graduates of Annapolis or five percent of experienced sailors. Practically all, officers and men, were civilians, a few more amateur yachtsmen, but the bulk of them were American college undergraduates. "Boys of Yale, Harvard, Princeton-indeed practically every college and university in the land-had dropped their books, left the comfort of their fraternity houses...
...Esperanto and the Delawana. The trophy, now at Gloucester, will be sailed for again next summer, and it is quite certain that no yacht masquerading as a fisherman will be allowed to compete. Such is the not uncertain dictum of the "Herald", and all lovers of rough and ready seamanship will heartily endorse this stand on the part of the Canadian journal...
Esperanto, two-masted schooner, outward bound from Gloucester to Halifax, has aroused the interest of all who are familiar with the traditions and character of American seamanship. For that same schooner, an American vessel with an American crew, is to race the challenger from Canada for the supremacy of North Atlantic waters. No butterfly drifting contest, this, but a real battle, regardless of weather conditions, and fought out by men of the old clipper-ship stock--men who are best able to uphold our fame and reputation...