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[[underlined]] street or anywhere compare [[strikethrough]] fave [[/strikethrough]] with the average one meets in Sweden. Many Jewish faces [[/underlined]] [[strikethrough]] Waiters clumsy [[/strikethrough]] and polish looking jews. [[/underlined]]
[[left margin]] Many common faced looking women of the lower class. [[/left margin]]
Went to [[underlined]] Koninglyke Yacht Club [[/underlined]] which has a quiet well sheltered basin near the main waterway. [[strikethrough]] L. Baron von [[/strikethrough]] [[underlined]] Nobody there all the yachts are tied to the docks, none at anchor [[/underlined]] and only a few hands present for the [[strikethrough]] latter la [[/strikethrough]] two or three larger yachts. Dispensing with anchorage, and the use of a [[underlined]] little gang plank astern makes it easy to get in and out [[/underlined]] and makes it unnecessary for crew to live aboard. The Secretary of the Club is S. [[underlined]] Baron van Heemstra (Warmund) who  speaks perfect English [[/underlined]] but who was just leaving and gave me his card and permission to
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inspect the boats. [[underlined]] Racing yachts are the same [[/underlined]] type as I saw everywhere [[underlined]] in U.S and Europe [[/underlined]] As to [[underlined]] cruising yachts [[/underlined]] there were four of five pretty dutch samples of the dutch leeboard yacht, [[underlined]] drawing very little water [[/underlined]] and provided with the usual [[underlined]] leeboards. [[/underlined]] One sloop rigged and varnished wood, as most of them are, was rather small and [[underlined]] had a little outboard motor fastened on its huge oaken rudder. [[/underlined]] It could easily be lifted [[strikethrough]] into [[/strikethrough]] on the deck of a steamer and sent to U.S. Its name is [[underlined]] "Corita". [[/underlined]] They all have a [[underlined]] removable bowsprit fastened into an iron gammon ring. Their blunt bows and sterns [[/underlined]] are undoubdetly [[strikethrough]] conceived [[/strikethrough]] designed to [[underlined]] fit into the numerous locks of canals [[/underlined]] thru which they have to pass before they reach the shallow Zuiderzee. They