Word: seawanhaka
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High, square and weather-beaten on a bluff above the entrance to Oyster Bay, L. I., the Seawanhaka Corinthian Yacht Club lacks the austerity of the New York Yacht Club, custodian of the America's Cup, but it has a trophy of its own which, for small-boat sailors the world over, matches the glamor of that famed receptacle. The Seawanhaka Cup, put up for international races in 1895, has been won by Canada, Scotland and Norway. Last week, a fine summer's sailing on Long Island Sound reached its climax at Seawanhaka with a three...
...grinning in honest approval of his opponent's skill, jovial little Magnus Konow, who looks like a browner, balder copy of the onetime Crown Prince of Germany, jumped out on the float, scrambled up the long steps to the clubhouse piazza. There he found the cold comfort that Seawanhaka custom provides for a defeated challenger: first drink...
...Harold Vanderbilt's Prestige, Floyd Leslie Carlisle's Avatar, and Commodore of the New York Yacht Club Winthrop Williams Aldrich's Valiant, all with shiny new duralumin masts; and Chandler Hovey's wooden-masted Istalena.* There were four 40-footers, five 10-metre boats, two Seawanhaka schooners, and six schooners in a special cruising class never before included on a New York Yacht Club cruise...
...dropped four clubs (St. Nicholas, Piping Rock, Jockey, Creek) since last year, joined two (Brook & Yale), leaving Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt III undisputed No. 1 New York clubman with 16 memberships- Racquet & Tennis, Union, N. Y. Yacht, Union League, Century, Tuxedo, Brook, Metropolitan, Piping Rock, Turf & Field. Engineers, Seawanhaka-Corinthian Yacht. Automobile Club of America, Yale, Sleepy Hollow, Knickerbocker...
...frail wind moved under dark skies, ruffling the water of Oyster Bay, L. I., and filling the sails of some six-metre 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...