Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Except for 90-year-old America, matriarch of U.S. racing yachts, no U.S. racing boat is more beloved by U.S. yachtsmen than the three-masted schooner Atlantic. On any yacht-club veranda, mention of her name unwinds a reel of yarns...
...Croesus-rich Gerard B. Lambert (Listerine), a Johnny-come-lately to yacht racing, bought the old has-been from Cornelius Vanderbilt in 1927-and how. skippered by Charles Francis Adams, she finished second in the transatlantic race from New York to Spain the next summer...
Inaugurating a new policy towards getting its members afloat on the turbulent waters of the Charles, the Yacht Club this year plans to give a shore school course in the elements of sailing, and will require that all members of the organization, whether they have taken the course or not, pass an examination before they are turned loose at the helm of any of the dinghies available at the M. I. T. pavilion...
Roger Willcox, Commodore, George Nichols, Rear Commodore, and John Newman, a Freshman, will probably conduct most of the classes with other members of the Yacht Club filling in from time to time...
Averaging about 60 miles a day, the Presidential yacht Potomac, escorted by the destroyer U.S.S. Benson, slid away from the ship lanes, around Great Isaac Island, Great Stirrup Cay, Mangrove Cay and Grand Bahama, little paradises of white beaches, tropical palms and turquoise water. Adviser Hopkins landed a 4-foot, 25-lb. kingfish; Secretary Stephen T. Early hooked an 80-lb. shark...