Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...afternoon of July 30, 1844, John C. Stevens, on his yacht Gimcrack in the New York harbor off the Battery, met a group of men including John C. Jay, George L. Schuyler, James M. Waterbury and founded the New York Yacht Club. Its first clubhouse nestled on Elysian Fields, Hoboken, N. J. Its present home on West 44th Street, Manhattan, is the shrine of social seamen the world over. Member boats over 30 feet on the waterline number more than 600. In the famed grillroom, designed like the salon of a ship, hang reproductions of all the notable ships...
Succeeding the America, the Atlantic was the first of the famed U. S. racing yachts which defeated the Earl of Dun-raven's Valkyries, and in recent years the various Shamrocks of Sir Thomas Lipton. It is usually a syndicate of N. Y. Yacht Club men who finance the defence. The three winning boats this century have been the Columbia, Reliance, Resolute. In memory of the first great triumph the boats race for "America...
...backbone of most of these clubs' existences is local racing. From little dinghys raced by children all the way to the largest schooner yachts in the cult of sailing speed is worshipped. Many, particularly inland clubs, race roaring motor boats. The chief international races are between the famed 6 metre sailboats (about 35 feet on deck) for which British boats visit various foreign clubs including U. S. and U. S. boats are carried across the seas to race in foreign waters. This summer there will be a trans-pacific race to Honolulu. The King and Queen of Spain have offered...
...Yachts are rarely wrecked. Only the sturdiest, save in exceptional cases, go far to sea. Others are shrewdly, carefully sailed or navigated. Or perhaps yachtsmen are lucky. Among the rare disasters are: The father of W. A. W. Stewart, one-time commodore of the potent Seawan-haka Yacht Club, Oyster Bay, L. I., was lost with a party in a hurricane off the Florida coast about 25 years ago. The Liev Eriksson, from Norway to Newfoundland, with a party including William Washburn Nutting was lost off Iceland in 1924. Alain J. Gerbault, famed French tennis player, bound around the world...
...longest yacht in the world is John Pierpont Morgan's steamer Corsair. 304 ft. overall. Steam...