Word: yawl
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...helps them to relax. Chrysler Corp. President L. L. ("Tex") Colbert religiously takes a long (i½-to 4-mile) walk every evening, says his mind is "anywhere but on business." Industrial Designer William Snaith of Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates, who sails a 47½-ft. yawl in his spare time, says: "Any activity that reunites us with elemental natural forces brings back the living, breathing human being...
...trim queen of modern U.S. racing yachts, Bolero, a 73½ft. yawl seldom out of first place in her class, was sold by the New York Yacht Club's former commodore, salty Multimillionaire John Nicholas Brown (once renowned as "the world's richest baby"), to boat-loving Swedish Shipping Magnate Sven Salen, whose line of six-meter yachts (all christened Maybe) is a perennial threat in Eastern U.S. sailing contests. Price paid for Bolero, Class A winner of the 1950 and 1954 Newport-to-Bermuda races, was undisclosed. Her original cost...
Visiting U.S. yachts sailed away with the major trophies, e.g., the yawl Carina II, owned by Richard Nye of Greenwich, Conn., won the New York Yacht Club Challenge Cup and the Britannia Cup; the sloop Maybee VII, owned by William L. Horton of Los Angeles, won the six-meter class race. Some Cowes oldtimers complained that British yachting's golden days were over. True, all the great sailing dinosaurs like the 100-1 30-ft. transatlantic "J-Boats" of the Liptons and the Sopwiths had been killed by war and taxes...
Former commodore Freddie Hoppin skippered his 44-foot yawl to sixth place in the McMillan Cup series--intercollegiate sailing's only big-boat regatta--on April 2 and 3 at Annapolis...
...Jeannette, 9, Olive, 7, Lucinda, 5, Susan, 2-and tries to lead the happy, solid life of a normal, 9-to-5 commuter. He is as hard-muscled as a 25-year-old, loves to ski and sail. Whenever he can, he sails his 47-ft. racing yawl Palawan on Long Island Sound, has taken it on two Newport-to-Bermuda races...