Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate the assistant director was also treasurer of the Political Union, president of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association, and a member of the Senior Nominating Committee...
Races between the U. S. contenders will by no means be the only preliminaries to this year's Cup races. One result of the pre-launching negotiations was a rule which for the first time allows the challenging yacht club to share what has heretofore been the special privilege of the challenged club: that of picking the fastest available yacht after a trial series in U. S. waters. En route to the U. S. last week were two yachts, with one of which Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hopes to win this summer...
Until this year, most U. S. Cup yachts were built not by single individuals but by syndicates. The Sopwith system is not to build single yachts but to maintain a flotilla. Towing Endeavour I to the U. S. is the motor yacht Viva II, owned by his friend Frederick Segrist, who will help foot Endeavour I's bills. Towing Endeavour II is the Belgian trawler John. Owner Sopwith disapproves of U. S. food, so John is bringing enough British victuals (except fresh vegetables and bread) to last all summer. The two Endeavours, Viva and John are by no means...
Defender. To small boys who sail model boats on duck ponds, the best models are those patterned after America's Cup yachts. Currently the best America's Cup yachts are patterned after models which are sailed in a loo-ft. tank. At Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, N. J., a 43-in. model of the new Ranger was tried out last autumn against a similar model of Endeavour I. Ranger proved much faster. In the Bath Iron Works, which had previously built only one Cup contender and in which last winter's most important...
...also for Ranger's head designer, William Starling Burgess. If his boat defends the Cup successfully, Starling Burgess will equal the record made by his father, Edward Burgess, whose Puritan, Mayflower and Volunteer defended the Cup in 1885, 1886 and 1887 and made him the most famed yacht designer...