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...fleet in Newport Harbor made it, said a destroyer captain, "worse than Shanghai Basin." Surrounded by every conceivable kind of ocean-going craft was a quorum of all the big yachts in U. S. waters. They trailed out toward a buoy nine miles southeast of Brenton's Reef Lightship for the start of the race. Among a fleet of 500 or more, were half a dozen ocean liners, two cruisers H. M. S. Dragon and U. S. S. Minneapolis, 20 or more Coast Guard cutters and Navy destroyers. The Committee boat had already signalled the course when Vincent Astor...
LIGHTSHIP-Archie Binns-Reynal & Hitchcock ($2.50). Anchored off a reef on the Pacific Coast, Lightship No. 167 is called by neighboring Indians "the ship that goes nowhere." But within its battered hull an assorted crew of nine finds plenty of action before the story is over. In dull spells they indulge in philosophical speculation, with religion a favorite topic. When, however, a hurricane comes up, tearing No. 167 loose from her moorings, casting her adrift amid mountainous seas, there is no time for talk. Whether she makes port or not is not told. It is sufficient that the tale ends...
Pirates called it Cayo Hueso which meant bone reef. English tongues twisted it into Key West. The flat little island, six miles long at the tip of the spiny archipelago which curves southwest from the Florida peninsula, was settled in 1822, the southernmost town in the continental U. S. The Cuban revolution of 1869 sent political refugees scudding across 90 miles of open water to Key West as a safe haven. A Cuban named Eduardo Hidalgo Gato started the first modern cigar factory there five years later and the community began its climb to prosperity...
...Sakonnet Point, where rocky capes bracket a two-mile beach, off Brenton's Reef Lightship and the Narragansett shore where curious eddies twist in the shallow surf, there began last week the solemn business of picking a yacht to defend the America's Cup next September. After a week of trials, to be followed by another series in July, a third in August, the New York Yacht Club's selection committee had seen this year's three contenders under sail six times...
...Boston syndicate and skippered by one-time Secretary of the Navy Charles Francis Adams, came out for the first time and lost to Vanitie while Rainbow was again beating Weetamoe. For the third race, there was a light breeze. Over 30 miles, windward and leeward from Brenton's Reef Lightship to a buoy off Block Island and back, Rainbow won for the third time in a row while Yankee, considered a slow boat in calm weather, surprised the committee by running away from Weetamoe...