Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Waves tearing across her deck, the yacht Amphitrite hung on a sand bar off the Carolina coast. Her captain and owner, 40-year-old Samuel Luttrell II, ordered all hands into their 16-ft. lifeboat. With his wife Kathleen, their twelve-year-old son Samuel III and six crew members, he put out into the darkening sea. Just before they cast off, someone grabbed two metal ice trays from the yacht and carried them into the boat...
Into the Rough Atlantic. Just a few weeks before, the Amphitrite's trip had begun like a vacation cruise. Sam Luttrell, a retired Army officer in business in the Virgin Islands, had bought the yacht, a 96-ft. converted subchaser, at a Long Island shipyard. He hired an ex-Air Force officer from Miami for his navigator, and took on four Puerto Ricans as hands. With Gustave Frazer, a brawny Virgin Islander who worked for Luttrell, as engineer, the Luttrell family and their crew set out on a leisurely sea trip back to St. Thomas. They headed south...
...social season at Nassau, Freddy and Claude boarded their 104-ton auxiliary schooner Kangaroo, in Tangier and set sail for the Bahamas. A strong southwest gale was rising as the vessel rounded Cape Cantin off the Moroccan coast. The wind, heavy laden with desert sand, seized the yacht, drove it inshore and dashed it on the reefs. A surging wave flung a steward overboard to his death. Another knocked Claude's French maid Cecile to the deck. McEvoy's crewmen picked her up and lashed her to a mast for safety, but a moment later the wind tore...
...night long the furies of wind and sea pounded the yacht while Claude clung desperately to a spar. Before dawn the ship's cook went mad and drowned himself. At daybreak three sailors had succeeded in swimming ashore. The last aboard the yacht, Freddy and Claude, both good swimmers, finally decided to chance it. Side by side they dived into the water. Freddy was within two yards of the beach when he looked back and saw his pretty wife in trouble. While Morocco tribesmen shouted from the beach, the playboy-millionaire turned seaward once again. The effort...
Another annual bi-sexual event consists of a team-race with Radcliffe. In this, the losers literally lose their shirts to the victors. The Radcliffe matelots have apparently lost every year since the race was inaugurated. But in a way no yacht club official would specify they have always managed to remain modest...