Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years since Wilhelm II, All Highest Kaiser and War Lord, abdicated as German Emperor, but he was still last week Commodore of the Kaiserlicher Yacht Club which he founded 49 years ago, just before his accession to the Throne. It placed the Kiel Regatta on a par of nautical swankness with Britain's Cowes Regatta. Last winter German socialites of the Kaiserlicher Club nearly provoked the Nazi brownshirt proletariat of Kiel to riot by announcing they would celebrate Jan. 27 the birthday of Der Kaiser. A clash was averted. The Kaiserlichers dined and roared "Hoch der Kaiser!", but Storm...
...Yacht racing for the America's Cup is divided into three stages: 1) negotiation; 2) construction; 3) sailing. Last week in Manhattan, preliminaries to next summer's races started to proceed from Stage One to Stage Two when Harold Stirling Vanderbilt, who helped underwrite and skippered the successful Cup defender in 1934, announced that, instead of heading a syndicate to finance the 1937 defender, he would build one all by himself. The new boat will cost some $400,000. She will be the first individually owned defender in 50 years. Because her designer, W. Starling Burgess, works...
Most ceremonious event in contemporary sport, the America's Cup races cannot be expected to go all the way from one stage to another with one undignified leap. Specifications for next year's boats, drawn up by the New York Yacht Club's cup committee, still have to be approved by Challenger Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith...
...storm with canvas cut to staysail & spanker, Lieutenant de Drambour stayed on the bridge of his ship, while the crates shifted wildly, threatened any instant to sink him. Two days after his 20th birthday he dropped anchor off Sandy Hook, welcomed by the New York World, the New York Yacht Club, the U. S. Fleet, and a spanking good dinner at the Hoffman House...
Harvard's Yacht Club, Edward D. Fullerton, Jr. '37, Commodore, unfuris its sails in a Frost-bite Regatta with ten other college crows in the Charles River Basin at one o'clock Sunday. Edward B. Hutton '39, will tend the sheets in Fullerton's dinghy, while Chandler Hovey, Jr. '39, and James A. Rousmaniere '40, of local and Long Island Sound fame respectively, man a second boat...