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...Biggest was Fandango, C. E. Hoffman's 85-ft. auxiliary schooner. In his crew on Manuiwa, Harold G. Dillingham had famed old swimmer Duke Puo Kahanamoku. who took up sailing two years ago. A Hawaiian prince named David Kawanakoa was in the afterguard of the 48-ft. yawl Dolphin. Youngest sailor was Cinemactor Billy Butts, 14, on Naitamba. Hiram T. Horton. retired Chicago steel tycoon, was aboard the Sift, ketch Vileehi on which he and his family sailed round the world three years ago. Six other little sailboats made up the largest fleet ever entered in the California...
...Said President Roosevelt: ''It was an awfully good race. Do you know I've been waiting for years, actually for years, to see the record of this course broken. And today both crews broke it. Simply splendid! Splendid!" Six Williams students chartered a 40-ft. yawl, Cumberbunce II. The night after the race they found Cumberbunce II stranded 500 ft. from her moorings. When one of them hired a water taxi and tried to get aboard, a man with a revolver ordered him off, ordered the taxi to tow him out of the harbor, and then...
...ocean race-where time allowances based on sail area, beam, displacement are made to give the smaller yachts an even chance-crossing the finish line first is usually brief satisfaction. Winner of last week's race was not the Flame but the trim 21-ton, 37-ft. yawl that followed her into port six hours later-the famed Dorade, owned by Roderick Stephens Jr., 23, who was her captain last week and his brother Olin, 24, her designer. On corrected time, Flame dropped into third place and another U. S. boat, Henry and Sherman Morss's schooner Grenadier...
After he was elected President four years ago, Herbert Hoover got on a battleship and cruised around South America to rest and to allay hostile economic feelings engendered by the policies of Calvin Coolidge. After he was nominated for President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt got on a 40-ft. yawl and cruised around New England co rest and to allay hostile political feelings engendered by his defeat of Alfred Emanuel Smith at the Chicago convention...
Early the fifth morning the Ambassadress towed the Myth II through the Cape Cod Canal. Little groups of citizens lined the banks, waved & cheered. Coast Guardsmen delivered five telegrams to the yawl. Vessels in Massachusetts Bay tooted salutes. . . . Sunset found the Myth II almost becalmed off Boston as the Marcon pulled alongside for a megaphone interview...