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...Patsy, 12-metre sloop sailed by Tycoon John Jacob Raskob: a race in the Chester River Yacht Club regatta off Baltimore. Second was John J. Raskob Jr. in a 10-metre boat...
...metre sloop team: The international races off Hamilton, Bermuda, when Sea Venture, a Bermuda sloop, fouled a mark...
...Coconut Grove, near Miami, its home anchorage, lay with sails furled, the 29-foot sloop of Author Kirk Munroe, of the Biscayne Bay Yacht Club, on a quiet Florida night last week. Then furtively came a thief to up anchor and sail away ghostlike to the south. In hot pursuit the next morning went Author Munroe, borne on the wings of a seaplane. Munroe's pilot dropped alongside of the sloop and the pursuer leapt aboard. At the point of a gun he forced the thief to come about, then he bound him and put out for the Coconut...
Died. William Reed, 19, son of Professor Elmer Bliss Reed of Yale; off the Maine coast in Frenchman's Bay; of drowning. Three weeks ago he was lost with his sloop in a squall. The body was found by a lobster fisherman off Egg Rock Light after 150 lobster boats, two yachts, two seaplanes had searched many days...
...racing sloop Isolde, leased by Commodore Vincent Astor of the New York Yacht Club from Commodore Henry L. Maxwell of the Larchmont Yacht Club, was in a collision off Sands Point, L. I., sank in three minutes. Only the crew was aboard...