Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Weld's schooner yacht "Gitana," having several Harvard graduates aboard, won a $1600 prize at the Clyde international sailing regatta...
...Boston yacht Gitana, Weld owner, with Messrs. Sears and Grant as guests, arrived safely at Gibraltar, from Bermuda, a few days...
...keel schooner yacht Gitana, Mr. William F. Weld, Jr., owner, sailed on her Mediterranean and African coast cruise, yesterday. Mr. Weld will be accompanied by three friends, among them Mr. R. D. Sears, and Mr. Mercer, and possibly Mr. P. Grant, Jr., will be of the party. The Gitana is fitted out for the cruise in the most perfect manner possible, no detail having been overlooked. She sails first for the Bermudas, thence to Madeira, Gibralta, the coast of Spain and the south of France, thence to Italy, Sicily, Algiers and Tangiers in Africa, the Canary Islands, Trinidad, working through...
...trust that when it does actually come off, the News will restrain itself and not give way to such a strain of gush and nonsense as was contained in its report of the proceedings of '84's promenade. Among the principal events of the past few days was the yacht club race of a week ago today, for the third-class challenge cup. The Banner was to make its appearance on Saturday last, according to the News, but as we have heard nothing said about it since, it is probable that the publication has been delayed, as is frequently...
...Rupert Sargent, formerly of the class of '84, was drowned during the month of August while yachting with three other gentlemen, one of whom was an older brother. The Yacht Mystery sailed from New Haven bound for Nantucket but was swamped near the reef known as the Hen and Chickens. All the passengers were lost. The Mystery was last seen by the sloop, Amelia Powell, as she was passing between Gooseberry neck and the Hen and Chickens on the morning of August 12. The following account of the probable manner of her loss is by one of the gentlemen...