Word: yawl
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...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...
First across the finish line, after 4 days 13 hrs. afloat, was John Nicolas Brown's famed, 73-ft. black yawl Bolero, leader in two other Bermuda races. But when committeemen had done their homework, they found that Malay, 40th to finish in a fleet of 77, had been at sea for 5 days...
...smallest boat to take the trophy since 1906, when the 38-ft. yawl Tamerlane won the first Bermuda race...
...Maine (1929-33), wealthy corporation executive (Northwest Airlines, the Pacific Coast Co., etc.), soldier in both World Wars; in the crash of his private plane; near Allentown, Pa. Descendant of an old Maine family, he was a star athlete at Groton and Harvard. In 1928 Lawyer Gardiner sailed a yawl up & down the Maine coast, campaigning for the governorship, won election by 80,000 votes. In World War II, as an Army colonel, he accompanied General Maxwell D. Taylor on a daring mission to German-occupied Rome (1943) to secure a pledge of loyalty from Dictator Mussolini's aging...
...Newport-to-Annapolis ocean race, the 73-ft. yawl Bolero, captained by John Nicholas Brown, commodore of the New York Yacht Club, and with famed Yachtsman Cornelius ("Corny") Shields serving as first mate, raced and outran a squall, finished her 466-mile run in a near calm to win in an elapsed...