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March 24. Wired to Guaranty Trust Co in Paris to forward mail here till Monday evg.
Nice has a pretty and comfortable little harbor.  One or two steam ships in it and a few small craft.  Small pleasure sail boats lateen, lug or sloop rigged 1 small schooner 1 small cutter [[strikethrough]] Cutter [[/strikethrough]] A sloop without boom and mainsail boomless 2 vangs on gaff and sail brails along mast and gather there, using hooks on gaff to gather sail along mast One motor yacht about 70 feet long English "Dame Elsa". 
Beautiful 3 masted schooner with square rigged topsails on fore mast called "Sea Foam". belongs to Higgins (American)
The 3 mast schooner "Paris de France" former "Meteor" of the Kaiser now belongs to Bunau-Varilla.

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Excellent clean quays of stone, well kept easily accessible by means of wide stone steps or carriage.  Yachts here everywhere tie up by dropping one or 2 anchors at the bow and 2 stern ropes tied to rings on the quay and a small gangplank allows access from the stern.  This gang plank is suspended by 2 wire ropes, lifted by a halyard from rear mast.  The gang plank has rollers on the end which rests on the quay
Coconut fibre rope much used here. floats on water and does not rot so easily because dries sooner than manilla or hemp rope.  Am told that Nice harbor is not so good as [[strikethrough]] Carnes [[/strikethrough]] Cannes and is dangerous to make in unfavorable winds.  Went walking all day.  Then went to eat oysters

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According to a New Yorker article, "The Meteor's racing record was not impressive & in 1909, she was sold to a Dr. Carl Dietrich Harries, who rechristened her to Nordstern. In 1921, she was sold to Maurice Bunau-Varilla, owner of the Paris newspaper Le Matin."