Word: yachting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...complaint. One editor was off to Newport, R.I. to sail his 58-ft. yawl Caribbee in the 466-mile, 30-boat race to Annapolis, Md. The editor of the magazine headed for Norwalk, Conn., where he climbed aboard a launch and ran the weekly sailboat race of the Norwalk Yacht Club. Two of the magazine's ad staff were out on Long Island Sound racing their 19-ft. Lightning-class sloops. For all of them, the weekend on the water was the same mixture of work and editorial play that keeps them glued to their jobs despite the lure...
...Review. This week the Sverdlov stood amid 206 British Commonwealth warships, 56 British merchantmen and 15 other foreigners (including the U.S.S. Baltimore) as the Queen's yacht swept down the lines. As the Queen passed by, the Russians cheered her, and a flashing electric sign spelled out Sverdlov. Next day the Russian ship headed toward home, leaving Britons to wonder whether they should scoff any more at a navy that is bigger than theirs...
...Essex County Club is one of the high points of the reunion. Buses leave the Union at 9:15 for the Club. Classmates will spend the rest of the morning playing golf and tennis at the club. After drinks and a huge meal, some will go off to Manchester Yacht Club for boat rides, while others will head for swimming at Singing Beach. Later there will be a square dance at Essex...
...President and his party spent the night back on the yacht, which moved down the York River and anchored after he came aboard. Next day it slid into a dock at Norfolk, while white-clad sailors stood at attention on the flight decks of two flag-dressed aircraft carriers. Ike went ashore again, this time wearing a light, Truman-like Stetson hat to 1) confer with Admiral Lynde D. McCormick, commander of the North Atlantic Treaty naval forces, and 2) play golf at Sewells Point Golf Club, where he turned...
...kicking up wakes which bounced back from the seawall at Hains Point and stirred up the usually placid waters just as the crews came past. As one observer on the judges' barge put it, "The only way you can tell a race has begun is when you see a yacht revving up in the middle of the course...