Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Atlantic off Palm Beach aboard Captain Herman Gray's sloop Orca, President Hoover's luck changed. His first day's catch: three sails (one 7 ft., 8 in.) and a dolphin. The second day he got two more "sails," one of which was barely an inch too short to win him the "diamond button" awarded by the Sailfish Club of Florida for eight-footers...
...Leisler Rebellion; another of whom is reputedly still owed £567 for paying for Manhattan's City Hall in 1803. Rex Brasher had no art training except at Tiffany's and at a Port land, Maine photo-engraver's. At 19 he set sail in a sloop down the Atlantic coast. In one spring afternoon on the deserted waste of Long Island's Far Rockaway he saw 86 different species of birds. He sold his sloop in Key West and went back to Brooklyn to paint what he had seen. In 1900 he burned the 400 pictures...
...Frederick H. Prince's America's Cup contender Weetamoe, sailed by Harold Stirling ("Mike") Vanderbilt: the King's Cup. at Newport, closing race of the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise; against Gerard Barnes Lambert's Vanitie, the only other big racing sloop in commission this year...
...Jacques Le Brun, skipper of a French monotype sloop, protested to the judges that an Italian boat had failed to give him sea room at the start of the ninth race. The judges disallowed the protest, disqualified Skipper Le Brun. He took his claim to the Olympic Protest Committee which differed with the judges, awarded Skipper Le Brun a first place that gave France the monotype championship instead of Holland, 87 points to 85. Sweden won the six-metre boat championship. The other yachting championships went to two U. S. boats-Gilbert Gray's star sloop Jupiter, Owen Churchill...
...Frederick H. Prince's America's Cup sloop Weetamoe, sailed by Harold S. Vanderbilt: the fourth day's run of the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise; by 8 min. (corrected time), against Gerard M. Lambert's Vanitie, re-rigged this year and sailed by Secretary of the Navy Adams; at Mattapoisett, Mass...