Word: skippers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...have heard, I think of Col. Charles Augustus Lindbergh and what he did. And I dimly recall Skipper Alain Gerbault of France. Didn't he play tennis once? Didn't he sail a rowboat around the world or something? But the man I cannot place, though I suppose I should, is Skipper Harry Pigeon of Los Angeles. What did he do? Why should he be given an Olympic diploma along with Lindbergh and Gerbault (TIME, Aug. 6)? I have no doubt whatever that he deserved it, but being something of a hero-worshipper I would like a description...
...Manhattan replied: "We had recognized Your Majesty." Nina, tiniest of all the yachts and first to finish in the race from New York to Santander, won the Queen's cup for boats of less than 55 feet waterline length. She had crossed the Atlantic in 24 days. Said her skipper. Paul Hammond: "We carried all the sail we could, but we did not drive the yacht and we shortened sail whenever the weather was heavy...
...passed us. When our jib was reset we passed her so closely that we took her wind and we could see her sails shaking." The Atlantic, 185-footer, winner of the last trans-Atlantic race (in 1905), finished almost a day later than the Elena. Said her skipper, Charles Francis Adams, 62, lawyer, descendant of two U. S. presidents: "We never had more wind than we wanted and half the time we had hardly sufficient to shove us, but just the same it was a wonderful cruise and if we hadn't been racing it would have been perfect." Then...
...first trans-Atlantic race since 1905 when the Atlantic, skippered by Capt. Charles Barr, won the Kaiser's Cup by crossing from Sandy Hook to England in 12 days, 4 hrs. 1 min., 19 sec. This year, this same Atlantic, repainted many times and retrimmed, has as skipper the direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock...
Grizzliest of the skippers was Capt. Norman Ross, 58, of the Zodiac. As a child he began to fish off Gloucester, Mass., and still prefers to be known as a fisherman rather than a racing skipper. He owns one of the four schooners in Gloucester that scorn to use motor power...