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[YACHTING]. Photo album and scrap-book from the sailing ketch Vileehi, from its round-the-world journey beginning in 1931. [San Diego: 1931]. This album includes 33 original photos taken during the voyage, many newspaper clippings, and many gallery-bought photos acquired along the way. Various 8vo to 12mo sizes (from 218 x 167 mm to 90 x 66 mm). All photos and clippings mounted on stiff paper leaves (234 x 307 mm). Many mounts with contemporary ink captions. Album bound in contemporary burgundy decorative paper over brown cloth boards (binding worn and soiled, with a later paper label on front board, mounts with some wear, soiling, some toning, rubbing, creasing to photos, some mounts with glue residue from where some photos or clippings were removed or fell out. The sailing ketch Vileehi was owned by the retired steel tycoon, Hiram T. Horton (dates not available); it was used by Horton and his family and crew to circumnavigate the globe from San Diego (the first yacht to do so from San Diego). During his travels, Horton and his family used this album to document their journey through the Pacific, stopping in places such as Tahiti, Pago Pago, Rarotonga, Camberra, Auckland, Fiji, Hawaii, Moorea, and others. After this journey, Horton used the Vileehi as a racing yacht, with some success. In 1941, the U. S. Navy acquired the Vileehi in December of 1941. When the Vileehi was decommissioned from the Navy in 1946, it was purchased by actor Dana Andrews (1909-1992); after Andrews, it was sold to a succession of owners. In 2018, she sank at dock in Port Saint Louis du Rhône. She has since been floated but is awaiting refurbishment and repairs. This album is a fitting tribute to her golden years and a fascinating look at travel through the Pacific in the 1930s.