Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Presidential yacht Potomac drew away from Richmond that afternoon for a cruise to Jamestown before returning to Washington, the shouting crowd on shore turned to Postmaster General Farley, who had been left behind, and demanded a speech. Then came the only crass note in a week-end of unsullied idealism. Bellowed Boss Farley, hands cupped to mouth...
...Auctioneers submitted at Buckingham Palace the results of their sale of fittings of King George's yacht Britannia, a beloved treasure of "The Sailor King" who expressly commanded that she should be sunk and not used for any charitable purpose after his death. The late King's sailing master, Sir Philip Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia...
Luncheon was a family affair at Buckingham Palace. King Edward and Queen Mary there decided that when a British warship soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
...four wealthy New Yorkers got into an argument over which had the finest yacht. Upshot was the first ocean race, across the Atlantic from Sandy Hook to the Isle of Wight for a pot of $90,000 between Pierre Lorillard's 105-ft. Vesta, James Gordon Bennett Jr.'s 107-ft. Henrietta and the 106-ft. Fleetwing of George & Franklin Osgood. Choosing December as the windiest month, these three schooners set off with professional crews, many a misgiving in a rising wind. Vesta and Henrietta had their cockpits boarded over but not Fleetwing. On the eighth day, wallowing...
...often does Zenith's president journey inland. Since 1929 he has lived winter & summer on his 185-ft. yacht Mizpah. In winter he ties up in the Chicago River near the Michigan Avenue Bridge. Tall, black-browed, weathered, he likes to cruise to Ontario's Georgian Bay with Radioman Powel Crosley Jr., agreeing beforehand not to mention radio. He likes checked suits and stiff collars, cocktails made with pistachio ice cream and gin. But what Eugene Francis McDonald likes most of all is to put on a diving helmet and sit on the floor of Georgian Bay watching...