Word: yachtsmen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...several years before that a Honolulu resident named Clarence W. MacFarlane had tried to drum up interest in such a race. He found yachtsmen eager to sail ''down" to Honolulu, but fearful of sailing back "up" to California against the prevailing Trade Winds. MacFarlane set out in his 48-ft. schooner La Paloma to prove that this was no great problem. Arriving safely at San Francisco on April 19, 1906, he was irked because there was no reception committee. Finally he spied a friend. "Hello, Mac," said the San Franciscan, "Isn't this terrible...
Three weeks ago, as 22 white yachts, largest fleet in the race's history, jockeyed for position behind the starting line at Santa Monica, Dillingham's Manuiwa was the favorite. But to the small coterie of yachtsmen who knew the history of ocean racing, one boat was vastly more interesting than any of the others. She was the slim, 53-ft. yawl Dorade, winner of one transatlantic, two Fastnet races, generally regarded on the Atlantic as the finest ocean racer ever built. Brought to the Pacific especially for last week's race, she cost her new owner...
...deflected upwards in successive strata by the huge petrified surf of the Chemung Hills, soarers last week camped in tents below the knolls from which their ships were launched, helped each other tinker their craft, chattered over picnic fires. Major topic of three-dimensional sailing enthusiasts, like that of yachtsmen, is the weather. Because the weather at Elmira for the last three years has been disappointing, pilots discussed moving their annual meet to Ellenville, N. Y., in the Catskills. After one painfully calm day, when the meet started last fortnight, a warm summer wind began to pour across the green...
Luncheon was a family affair at Buckingham Palace. King Edward and Queen Mary there decided that when a British warship soon tows the Royal Yacht Britannia's hulk out to be sunk in the. Channel, this will be done in secret, lest yachtsmen and seafarers congregate unduly. The beloved yacht of King George, "The Sailor King," has now been stripped of its best things which were sold at auction in 344 lots last week at East Cowes...
...entering an ocean race, the 43 sloops, schooners, yawls, ketches included many a new craft, many a famed oldtimer. Newest was Robert P. Baruch's 53-ft. sloop Kirawan, launched only a month ago. Most famed was Vadim Makaroff's 72-ft. adapted-ketch Vamarie, known to yachtsmen as "often a bridesmaid but never a bride," because she so frequently crosses the finish line first only to lose the race because of her small allowance handicap. Last week's finish proved no exception. First over the horizon at St. David's Head, Vamarie crossed the line...