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Pride, the U.S. champion 5.5-meter yacht, skippered by New York's Pete Masterson: the Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup, from the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's challenger Bibis II, in three straight races on Long Island Sound. Obviously the faster boat in heavy seas and high winds, Pride's winning margins were conclusive: 4 min. 14 sec., 5 min., and 1 min. Often called the "Little America's Cup," the Seawanhaka Cup competition is similar to the America's Cup in all but one respect: the U.S. has no monopoly on it. Pride...
...crow's-feet wrinkles of half a century spent peering at sky and sea. Ruddy and fit in his natty yacht-club blazer, Cornelius Shields (TIME cover, July 27, 1953) was every inch a blue-water skipper as he relaxed last week in Long Island's Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club and started to instruct 33 experienced sailors about his happy...
Three weks ago John Tlumak initiated a new policy which called for semi-weekly publication of the regular weekly campus newspaper, The Seawanhaka. Tlumak's purpose for increasing publication, he said, was "to better inform the student body of campus activities," but the faculty objected to the new policy and the editorial board was told to revert to its old weekly policy...
...extremely good. It is unfortunate, however, that neither was the Baruna mentioned nor her picture printed ... In the 6-meter class you did not mention . . . Llanoria, which is the newest and best of the 6s he built. She was twice Olympic champion and winner of the One-Ton and Seawanhaka Cups...
...yawl Baruna was built by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard. For a picture of Nevins' Llanoria, on which Reader Roosevelt sailed as a crewman when she won her Seawanhaka trophy...