Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York Yacht Club members talked last week as though the club had already received its challenge, expected within a fortnight, from barnacle-bearded Sir Thomas Lipton to race for the America's Cup in 1932. America's Cup racing next year will be done according to new and stricter specifications forbidding such oddities as the Enterprise's light and springy duralumin mast, or the winches below decks which made her easier to handle. Woodenmasted Weetamoe, slightly remodelled, might well be the 1932 defender...
Depression has been a gloomy sunset gun for many U.S. yacht-owners but it has in no way curtailed Commodore Winthrop Williams Aldrich's enjoyment of his favorite sport. If the Walloping Windowblind was a capital ship for an ocean trip, so is Chase National Bank, world's largest, of which Mr. Aldrich became president when it merged with Equitable Trust, whose counsel he had been for many years and of which he had become president in 1929. Son of Rhode Island's Senator Nelson Wilmarth Aldrich, he did his first sailing off Warwick...
When a man is elected Rear-Commodore of the New York Yacht Club, it is clear that, in the normal course of events, he will hold the office for three years, then become successively Vice-Commodore and Commodore. Commodore Aldrich succeeds Vincent Astor (who succeeded Harold Sterling ["Mike''] Vanderbilt) and will probably be succeeded, year after next, by Junius Spencer Morgan Jr. His fellow members have been pleased and amused by the crisp, business-like manner in which Commodore Aldrich conducts even such informal meetings as last fortnight's aboard the Viking...
...greatest race of its kind ever sailed." In her races against Shamrock V. Skipper Vanderbilt sailed Enterprise but the Aldrich pennant, blue border and blue anchor on a white field, flew from her $40,000 mast. A better sailor than ex-Commodore Astor, Commodore Aldrich maintains no lavish steam yacht like the Nourmahal; his Wayfarer is a smaller but serviceable boat. Like ex-Commodore Vanderbilt, his favorite sport ashore is tennis. One of his brothers, William T. Aldrich, is Commodore of the Eastern Yacht Club at Boston. The New York Yacht Club's Commodore is an affable and patrician...
...Chartered from stout-hearted George Mallory Fynchon whose Wall Street Firm of Pynchon & Co. failed last April. The Pynchon steam yacht Vasanta is now owned by Clayton W. Morse Jr., who renamed her Clador...