Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...royal family has already been economizing somewhat. To avoid the high prices of London food shops, the palace has begun purchasing food from a military commissary. Only last month, Philip sold his 63-ft. yawl Bloodhound. Whenever the Queen moves from one residence to another, she takes most of the staff with her to avoid having to keep servants at several places...
Robbie Doyle skittered Harvard's yawl. Sailing with him were Reeve. Peter Olney, Alfred Woodworth, Edward Miller, Joe Worth, Jeff Storer, and Jeff Padnos. Jack McAleer was skipper for Brown's successful team...
Otherwise, a raffish, indulgent and hyperactive atmosphere prevailed in the Skakel household. There were servants, a swimming pool, riding horses, a 35-ft. yawl and another smaller sailboat (significantly named, by Ethel, Sink or Swim). The house was always crammed with the children's schoolmates and other visitors, and it was not unusual for 25 people to gather at the Skakels' dinner table...
...knockdown' in the Macmillan Cup regatta at Annapolis occured when the Crimson sailors were unable to get the spinaker sail down after rounding a leeward mark. The eight-man Harvard crew managed to right the 40-ft. yawl in winds gusting to 20 knots and finished the race in ninth place, after being third around the mark...
...blue-water yachtsman to learn that Sumner A. ("My friends call me Huey") Long, 46, suffers from seasickness. It is certainly their only consolation, because Long, a Manhattan ship broker, is the world's most successful ocean-racing skipper. Between 1960 and 1967, Long and his 57-ft. yawl Ondine logged 150,000 miles, entering 66 races that ranged in distance from 19 miles to 3,190 miles -and winning 44 of those races either outright or on corrected time. That Ondine, rechristened Severn Star, currently serves as a training boat for cadets at the U.S. Naval Academy...