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Many other New Zealanders were pleased and surprised last week at the easy informality of the visitor who is not only Britain's Queen but their own. From the first moment of their welcome in Auckland harbor, when New Zealand yachtsmen by the hundreds braved a spanking breeze in sleek sloops and smart knockabouts to guide their liner Gothic to its berth, Elizabeth and her husband Philip radiated warmth and friendliness. They cut security measures to a minimum so that their subjects could see them close at hand. They went out of their way to arrange a call...
...racing, held in Long Island Sound's crisp September breezes off the Larchmont (N.Y.) Yacht Club, young Gene and seven other helmsmen had proved themselves the best sailors in the land. Earlier last month, in the eight racing regions of the U.S. and Canada, some 1,600 yachtsmen from 599 clubs had beat and run their boats through the sectional eliminations. To fly the colors of the Southern...
Inland, the sport is taking over waters that never saw a sail before. Near Atlanta, Ga. three years ago, a federal flood-control and power project created a winding lake, 30 miles long. By now, over what was once a land of cotton, the yachtsmen of two new Atlanta clubs can sail fleets of Thistles, Y-Flyers and Snipes every day of the year. At Wichita, in the dry state of Kansas, lives the National and Western Hemisphere champion in the Snipe (15½-ft.) Class, Aeronautical Engineer Ted Wells, who does his home sailing on tiny ( ⅔ sq.mi.) Santa...
...water. The Aileen is named for his daughter, who won the national women's sailing championship in 1948. Son Corny Jr., 19 (nickname: Glick), is one of the top Long Island skippers in the speedy 110 Class boats. Mrs. Shields, in the older tradition of yachtsmen's wives, prefers the yacht club porch, seldom races with her husband, "because Corny won't let me do anything in the boat...
...Sailor Must Learn. Cornelius Shields was born far from the sea, in St. Paul, Minn., in 1895. Fitly enough, it was a notable year in U.S. sailing history, though the year's tidings made little ripple beyond the Eastern Seaboard. It was the year in which American yachtsmen, sailing Defender, a lineal descendant of the great ocean racer America,* defeated the British challenger for the tenth straight time in the America's Cup series. It was also the year in which the premier international championship for smaller boats, the Seawanhaka Cup series, was launched. Though...