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While the Navy wishes to fill this class primarily with experienced maritime personnel of offshore fishing, coastal vessels, and yachtmen, even those without aquatic experience may possibly secure a rating here. This group of men will be mainly used in manning the Local Defense Force vessels of the First Naval District, or in any locality in which the Navy Department regards their services necessary...
...particular interest to the many Harvard yachtmen will be this new book setting forth the history and romance of the more than 200 lighthouses and lightships of the New England coast, scattered between West Quoddy Head and the entrance to Long Island Sound. A knowledge of the stories of the lighthouses will add greatly to the pleasure to be derived from a sail along these shores...
...Eastern waters. Soon the boats of the other classes -the graceful, low-leaning "S" boats with their big spread of canvas, the shorter "Victory" boats (single-masted crafts with self-bailing cockpits, easy to handle in rough weather), the midget "Fish" and "Star" classes, 15-footers in which yachtmen's young sons and younger daughters dabble and pull ropes and get wet-soon these, and all the other bright pleasure craft of the Sound will be brought out of boathouses and moored at the ends of private jetties, ready for summer racing. Bronzed Captain "Juggy" Nelson...
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