Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There was a time when no monarch worthy of his ermine considered a throne worth sitting on unless its perquisites included a private yacht. But no more. Frederika of Greece, whose royal veins course with the blood of a host of Europe's kingly houses, has a throne but no yacht. Most of her royal cousins have neither. Then Frederika got an idea: she and her husband, King Paul, would play hosts to their less fortunate relatives aboard Greece's brand-new 5,500-ton liner Agamemnon. Gratefully, the members of Europe's royal families swept aboard...
...legendary Northwest Passage, a direct water route across the top of North America, has been the goal of navigators since Explorer Henry Hudson perished trying to find it in 1611. Norway's famed Roald Amundsen made a trip across in the 47-ton yacht Gjöa in 1905; the 80-ton Royal Canadian Mounted Police schooner St. Roch (TIME, Aug. 2), commanded by Mountie Superintendent Henry A. Larsen, in 1942 became the first vessel to make the passage from west to east. But both Amundsen and Larsen sailed through Prince of Wales Strait, detouring around the broader, more...
...doll's house, so Author Godden (The River, Black Narcissus) treats her to a high old time as the mascot of a bunch of boys who send her aloft with a toy balloon, spin her on a Catherine wheel and race her across a pond in a toy yacht...
...yawl Baruna was built by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard. For a picture of Nevins' Llanoria, on which Reader Roosevelt sailed as a crewman when she won her Seawanhaka trophy...
...NEVINS YACHT yard will continue to build and repair custom yachts, thanks to a last-minute rescue by Carl Hovgard, 48, president of the Research Institute of America and enthusiastic yachtsman (his Swedish-built yawl Circe won the Class B Newport-Bermuda race last month). Hovgard bought the yard, which was going to close (TIME, July 12) for a reported $900,000, will keep the Nevins name, try to run the company as a break-even hobby...