Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Columbus than he could in libraries. He had discovered that nearly all writers about Columbus were scholars ignorant of navigation, that they disagreed about whether he was history's greatest navigator or a landlubber. The professor went to the West Indies, sailed among the Lesser Antilles in a yawl, checking up on the western end of Columbus' second voyage. Last .year Professor Morison retraced part of Columbus' first voyage in a ten-day cruise around Haiti, claimed to have found the site of Navidad, first European settlement in the New World...
First prize ($15,000) for 70-foot mosquitoes went to the Manhattan firm of Sparkman & Stephens, whose Partner Olin Stephens in 1931 skippered the 52-foot racing yawl Dorade across the Atlantic in 17 days, 2 hours 14 minutes, later was a codesigner of Harold Vanderbilt's Cup-winning Ranger. As a specialist in sailboats for rich men, famed young (30) Mr. Stephens left the designing of a motored mosquito to his expert helper, Gilbert Wyland, was modestly annoyed when Designer Wyland gave the credit to his boss. Another $15,000 for the best 54-footer...
...settled to its pattern: he was always broke, although he made a lot of money; he was always successful, always in trouble with women. Robbed right and left (he lent $50,000 to friends, could collect only $50 when in need), he sank $34,000 in his ill-fated yawl, the Snark, and lost $70,000 when a great house he built burned as he prepared to move...
...over the mantel. Veteran of three runaway attempts at 13, at 18 he was a member of the 1928 British Olympic boxing team, at 19, "hoofed out" of school in Sydney, Australia, he was sailing the South Sea islands on a "mud ticket" as master of a 20-ton yawl. By the time he was 21, he had made and lost a goldstrike fortune...
...Fauntleroy has been to me. I try to get away from it but I can't." Moral of Fauntleroy was the value of altruism. Vivian Burnett died last week of a heart attack just after he and a party of friends, sailing on Long Island Sound in his yawl Delight III, had rescued four people from a capsized sailboat...