Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mist spread over his windshield as he made his way through the New England manufacturing towns that lie between Boston and New Bedford, and the harbor looked cold and grey to him as he crossed over the bridge to Fairhaven and pulled through winding slum streets to the yacht yard. The yard looked mournful, too: several fishermen from Nantucket, old home of the whalers, were tied up at the quay making repairs before going out onto winter waters, while many a boat that he knew under clouds of white canvas he hardly recognized as they lay all bare of rigging...
...racing for the America's Cup has been a bitter and disappointing experience to British challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith, the past summer has proved even more distressing to his partner in the aircraft business: bluff, sixtyish Frederick Sigrist. After building the yacht Endeavour II for his second Cup challenge, Mr. Sopwith prevailed upon Mr. Sigrist to charter his previous challenger, Endeavour I, from its new owner, Commodore H. A. Andreae of the Royal Southern Yacht Club, help him bear the expense of taking both boats to the U. S. as alternative challengers. En route, Endeavour I slipped...
...City of New York agreed to buy it for $1,500,000, leased the property in the meantime for $1 a year, wiped out its $30,000 taxes. North Beach then became Municipal Airport No. 2 (Floyd Bennett is No. i) and when President Roosevelt aboard his yacht fortnight ago assigned $9,050,900 of Federal money to be spent through WPA on enlarging North Beach, the work got under way. New York City has agreed to spend...
...Harold Stirling Vanderbilt's Ranger, successful America's Cup defender: all five races for the Eastern Yacht Club's City of Marblehead Trophy; off Marblehead, Mass. They were the last races of the season for the five Class J sloops, in which Ranger has raced 31 times, lost twice...
...Herbert Mendelson's Notre Dame, with her Designer-Builder Clell Perry at the wheel: the Gold Cup, oldest U. S. Speed boat trophy; at the Detroit Yacht Club; with an average speed of 63,675 m. p. h. for three 30-mi. laps-a Gold Cup record...