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After four years, two of them as a navigator in SAC B-52s, I'm ready to hang it up. I haven't enjoyed much of it, but then nobody guaranteed me that I would. I have seen England, Hawaii, Okinawa, Bermuda, Guam, South Dakota. I've pulled Alert away from my family an average of three days a week. I've climbed over, banged on, shined flashlights into, and learned to love "The Bomb." I've seen Viet Nam from the air 21 times, and I've had my teeth worked...
Tanned to a healthy leather brown, more affable than he had been in ages, Johnson strolled serenely among the gaily covered tables spread out on the thick Bermuda and St. Augustine grass in front of the ranch house, chatting, sniffing the air, shaking hands, sitting to gobble up a hefty plate of barbecue himself. Muzak wafted with the river breeze through the live oaks, and news men sipped the local Pearl beer and soft drinks...
Today's blue-water skippers are a bit more specific than John Masefield. Their pragmatic doggerel runs: "Give me a Cal-40 and some racing luck, and I'll win Bermuda, Transpac and Mackinac." In less than three years of ocean competition, the 40-ft. fiber-glass sloops from California have become the tallest boats in U.S. racing, sailing off with virtually every major trophy...
...sixth overall. Last March, a Cal-40 won overall honors in the month-long Southern Ocean Racing Conference series in Florida and Bahama waters. Last month IBM President T. Vincent Learson brought in his Cal-40 Thunderbird ahead of 166 other boats* overall in the storm-tossed Newport-to-Bermuda race-with five other...
...blue-water yachtsman is completely happy unless he can find something to grouse about. "She's noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...