Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Enterprise was footing faster, pointing higher as they headed toward Narragansett. Shamrock was far behind (9 min. 17 sec.) and the race practically over at the end of the first leg. On the two remaining legs Shamrock gained but only because Skipper Vanderbilt was taking no chances with his yacht's gear. He was near home on the third leg before he set his spinaker and big balloon jib topsail. Never had the duralumin mast, the winches for every sail, the devices for measuring the strain on the stays proved their efficiency more clearly. Enterprise had swept the series...
Although M-K had only 113 mi. of pipe when it was formed two years ago, it now has 800 mi. in addition to the lines being built, has 410,000 acres of gas land. Leading this aggressive development has been President Parish, 34, rich yacht-going Chicagoan. Young President Parish also formed Frank P. Parish Co. to distribute M-K stock. Recently this company canceled an underwriting agreement, returned about 1,000,000 shares to MK, which has also had 204,000 shares returned from investors who refused to accept delivery. Since the sale of this stock would have...
Seventy-nine years ago an unlovely $500 flagon with no particular name was to be competed for by 14 vessels of the Royal Yacht Squadron in a free-for-all race off Cowes. America, a rakish Yankee upstart which had crossed the Atlantic with the idea of bullying Englishmen into match races and making its owners some money, was grudgingly permitted to compete. When America came leaning down toward the finish line Queen Victoria asked her signalman who was second. "Your Majesty," he said, "there aren't no second...
...America's Cup races seemed at an end, for English and American yachtsmen were almost literally at swords' points. But in 1899 came Sir Thomas Lipton, flying the burgee of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club. He has competed for the trophy more than any other man (five times) and the races, which until his participation had never been without acrimony, became graced with the most decorous of seagoing courtesy...
...Shamrock IV won the first two of a three-out-of-five series off the Jersey coast. The New York Yacht Club's steamer, crammed with spectators on the first two days, did not even set out to watch the third contest, so sure seemed the result. But Skipper Charles Francis Adams of Boston, sticking close to windward of Shamrock and keeping her canvas almost empty, sailed Resolute home in front, then won the next two races. That is the closest Sir Thomas, or any other challenger, has ever come to winning the 100-guinea flagon...