Word: vadim
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Vamarie, the sleek ketch in which Vadim Makaroff carries on the seagoing tradition established by his Russian-admiral father, was first into port. Since she was scratch boat in the fleet of six that had sailed out of Newport, bound across the Atlantic for Bergen, Norway 19, days before, that meant nothing. Five hours later, a smaller boat, the yawl Stormy Weather, followed Vamarie, over which her time allowance was 47 hours. After a short wait to see whether the smallest boat in the race, the German Stoertebeker, would arrive in time to beat Stormy Weather, the race was officially...
Possibly the most hazardous, certainly the least comfortable sport in the world, transatlantic sailing appeals mostly to men .who, if they must live dangerously, have to supply their own danger. Biggest boat (72 ft. overall) in the Newport-to-Bergen race was Vamarie, owned and sailed by Caviar Tycoon Vadim Makaroff. Next biggest was Mistress, whose owner and skipper, George Emlen Roosevelt, is Commodore of the Cruising Club of America which sponsored the race, director in 20 companies, veteran of eleven blue-water races. Roderick Stephens Jr., who with his brother Olin won the last transatlantic race (1931) in Dorade...
...fences to hold the crowd back, the two fought through one of the brilliant finishes for which the Maryland Hunt Cup is famed. When it was over, Hotspur II was still leading, by less than half a length. Fifteen lengths behind, the two other finishers straggled home-Mrs. Vadim Makaroff's Gigolo and Benjamin Leslie Behr's Outlaw...
...Admiral Stefan Makaroff, commanding the Russian fleet in the Pacific, was the hero of a celebrated marine catastrophe when he went down with his ship in one of the early battles of the war with Japan. His son, Vadim Stefan Makaroff, first arrived in the U. S. in 1917 as assistant naval attache at Washington, returned to help Admiral Kolchak fight the Bolsheviks. Back in the U. S. in 1921 to get a job. he worked for Midwest Refining Co., helped introduce the diamond drill, perfected a system of freezing orange juice in paper containers, organized Makaroff & Co. which became...
Last week 42-year-old Vadim Stefan Makaroff upheld family tradition by becoming the hero of a marine contest quite different from the sort in which his father specialized. Sailing his beautiful 72-ft. mahogany ketch Vamarie, he won the annual St. Petersburg-to-Havana yacht race (284 mi.) with an elapsed time...