Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After luncheon aboard the yacht, the crew men were given their choice of sleeping during the return run or of studying in preparation for tomorrow's examinations. In the evening, the members of the first crew attended a dinner given by Mr. Robert Herrick '90 and General W. W. Skiddy for the combined Harvard and Yale oarsmen...
Today the entire Harvard crew corps went aboard the yacht "Corsair" at the invitation of its owner Mr. J. P. Morgan '89, to be entertained with a cruise down Long Island Sound. The weather was bright and warm and in the forenoon, the "Corsair" anchored in a sheltered bay where the oarsmen took advantage of a quickly rigged diving boom and indulged in an hour of swimming and moderate exercise...
...clock in the morning the three motors of the Trimotored Fokker monoplane Friendship, which Commander Richard Evelyn Byrd sold several weeks ago when he decided not to use it on his proposed South-Polar flight, began to hum. The ship taxied out from the boat-landing of the Jeffrey Yacht Club in East Boston. Further out in the harbor the Friendship made four attempts to leave the water; then one of the crew of four stepped off onto a tug nearby. This time when the plane slid over the misty water the spray faded suddenly under her pontoons...
...Stultz, who turned back rather than pilot Mrs. Grayson to almost certain mid-Atlantic destruction last autumn, and who has since flown about the Atlantic seaboard with Charles Levine and Mabel Boll. The other two were just the kind of people who would be likely to depart from a yacht club landing when they wanted to fly to England. One was slim Lou Gordon, mechanic, 26, in aviation since 1919. The third was a girl who looked exactly like Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
During the stay at Falmouth the men of the company will live in a yacht, the "Brae Burn," at anchorage in the harbor, and the women will occupy a cottage at Woods Hole...