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American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races James Douglas Jerrold Kelley,Frederic Schiller Cozzens No preview available - 2018 |
American Yachts: Their Clubs and Races James Douglas Jerrold Kelley,Frederic Schiller Cozzens No preview available - 2018 |
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allowance America's Cup American yacht anchor Ashbury Atalanta ballast beam beat boat Boston breeze built buoy Cambria canvas Cape Cod carried centre-board coast Commodore contest Countess of Dufferin course Cowes craft crew cruising cutter Dauntless depth Dreadnought Eastern Enchantress England famous fathoms feet in length fleet Fleetwing gale Gracie Gulf Stream harbor Henrietta hull Idler Island J. G. Bennett Julia keel knots land lead Ledge leeward light Light-ship Livonia Madeleine Magic mainsail Maria mast match measurement miles ocean owner PLATE port prize race racers Reef regatta rounded Royal Royal Yacht Squadron rule S.W. Spit sail area sailors Sandy Hook Sappho schooner Seawanhaka ship shoals shore Silvie sloops speed sport squadron squall stake-boat steam steamer stern tonnage tons vessels Vesta victory water-line waves weather wind windward yachtsmen yawl York Yacht Club
Popular passages
Page 324 - For the stars and the winds are unto her As raiment, as songs of the harp-player ; For the risen stars and the fallen cling to her, And the southwest-wind and the west-wind sing.
Page 324 - And the brown bright nightingale amorous Is half assuaged for Itylus, For the Thracian ships and the foreign faces, The tongueless vigil, and all the pain. Come with bows bent and with emptying of quivers, Maiden most perfect, lady of light, With a noise of winds and many rivers, With a...
Page 180 - There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it never overflows. Its banks and its bottom are of cold water, while its current is of warm. The Gulf of Mexico is its fountain, and its mouth is in the Arctic Seas. It is the Gulf Stream.
Page 22 - What heed I of the dusty land And noisy town? I see the mighty deep expand From its white line of glimmering sand To where the blue of heaven on bluer waves shuts down!
Page 310 - THE rocky nook with hilltops three Looked eastward from the farms, And twice each day the flowing sea Took Boston in its arms ; The men of yore were stout and poor, And sailed for bread to every shore. And where they went on trade intent They did what freemen can, Their dauntless ways did all men praise, The merchant was a man. The world was made for honest trade, — To plant and eat be none afraid. The waves that rocked them on the deep To them their secret told ; Said the winds that sung...
Page 370 - Good-by to Pain and Care ! I take Mine ease to-day : Here where these sunny waters break, And ripples this keen breeze, I shake All burdens from the heart, all weary thoughts away.
Page 141 - And work a little, and swear a little, And fiddle a little, and foot it a little, And swig the flowing can.
Page 183 - The isothermals show the Labrador current until nearing the Stream, when they descend gradually and in the stream itself abruptly, to their greatest depths. Instead of the warm stream-water thinning away as it was reported to do when spread out, it was not much over fifty miles in width at the time of our crossing, as shown by the current and high surface temperatures. The temperatures below the surface were much higher than at the same depths off the coast. The ordinary temperature at the bottom...
Page 359 - It is a safe and pleasant harbour within, having but one common and safe entrance, and that not very broad ; there scarce being room for three ships to come in board and board at a time ; but being once in, there is room for the anchorage of 500 ships.
Page 324 - Where shall we find her, how shall we sing to her, Fold our hands round her knees, and cling ? O that man's heart were as fire and could spring to her, Fire, or the strength of the streams that spring!