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[[left margin in red]] Yacht Races [[/left margin]]
and a bottle of iced California [[red underline]] white wine again enjoy my boat [[/red underline]] and think all the expense and troubles and delays worth while.
July 17. [[red underline]] Rossi [[/red underline]] cannot come along on account of some manufacturing troubles. Went ashore to phone for [[red underline]] Seabury [[/red underline]] but he is away till Thursday. So we left about 10AM. for [[red underline]] Sandy Hook [[/red underline]] when [[overwritten]] we [[/overwritten]] I anchored long enough to have lunch of some big clams we had purchased from some clammers. Then proceeded to sea to locate [[red underline]] the Yacht races. [[/red underline]] We soon saw [[red underline]] like a floating city [[/red underline]] in the far distance, which we joined and which was made up of every kind of yachts following [[double red underline]] Shamrock [[/double red underline]] and [[red underline]] Resolute [[/red underline]] which appeared
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in the distance with their towering sails and tremendous masts They [[red underline]] seemed absolutely identical [[/red underline]] except that Shamrock is painted [[red underline]] green, [[/red underline]] while Resolute is white. Few excursion steamers this time; since no boat permitted outside to carry passengers [[strikethrough]] with [[/strikethrough]] without required amount of life boats. An [[red underline]] Ocean liner the Arizaba [[/red underline]] had excursonists aboard and was able to disperse drinks [[red underline]] outside the 3 miles limit [[/red underline]] she flying a foreign flag. Kept following the racing yachts till late in afternoon, then wind ceased and it looked as if [[strikethrough]] there [[/strikethrough]] the race would not count due to absence of wind. We went for anchor just inside Sandy Hook and [[red underline]] pretty soon Shamrock and Resolute were being towed [[/red underline]] near our anchorage so we had