Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Glen Cove last week arrived Grain Broker Herbert L. Bodman on his yacht. He was returning from a three-week, six-horse cavalcade on which, followed by chauffeur & groom with Ford trailer containing stove, icebox and 200-lb. of oats, Broker Bodman, his wife, their son & daughter and two friends had ridden horseback 360 miles to Rutland...
With its customary air of imparting an enormously weighty secret to an annoyingly impatient world, the New York Yacht Club last week announced, in round official style, that it had received a challenge from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in behalf of Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith to race for the America's Cup in the summer of 1937. What made the announcement a shade less than breathtaking, even to that microscopic minority of the sporting public which normally gets excited about the America's Cup, was that the news had been unofficially given out in England...
Main feature of yachting's biggest international event has always been the unsporting controversies that precede, accompany and follow it. Main feature of Skipper Sopwith's challenge was the date he proposed for the first race, July 24. The date suits him because his challenger, Endeavour II, built last winter, has been racing all this summer. It does not suit the New York Yacht Club because it leaves little time to tune up an as yet unbuilt defender next spring. First job of the committee which the Club last week empowered to act on the challenge will...
...Minister Alfred Duff Cooper, who was aboard the chartered royal yacht Nahlin, kept vainly radioing ashore that the King was traveling incognito as the Duke of Lancaster. Nevertheless, the next Balkan fortress passed would blaze away a 21-gun royal salute. The Duke of Lancaster delighted during the week to slip off the Nahlin with Mrs. Simpson, she in the stern and he at the oars of a skiff...
...Gerard B. Lambert's famed yacht Yankee, smartly handled by her owner against the seven other biggest racing sloops now in commission in the U. S.: the King's Cup race. No. 1 sailing event of years when there is no contest for the America's Cup; in light breezes, off Newport...