Word: boat
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...formula picks out the theoretically fastest ("scratch") boat, assigns varying time allowances to boats that are theoretically slower. The hope was that it would allow boats designed for seaworthiness and family cruising to compete with racing machines. Bases for the formula were assumptions that were sacred 30 years ago: fast boats must have deep keels, tall masts, narrow beams; slow boats have the opposite...
Since World War II. designers have been busy as sea lawyers (or sea serpents) looking for loopholes, and building boats to make the most of them. Scion of the family-founded Luders Marine Construction Co., wiry, blond Bill Luders, 49, is one of the U.S.'s best sailors (at 16, he was 6-meter champion), knows the formula like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders...
Under her unorthodox rig, Storm sailed fine, both on and off the wind. She finished 3 hr. 18 min. 26 sec. behind the scratch boat. But with the extra four hours' handicap, Storm won handily, beat the fleet on corrected time...
...into his Yale sweater, takes the uke and Rudy Vallee records out of the closet, and goes courting, he has to determine whether the beautiful nymph will spend the rest of her life regaling him with choruses of La Vie En Rose, or be packed off on the next boat to Paris. Happily, the obviousness of this decision doesn't slow down the pace of the film...
...that dominates the novel. The heroine worships it, the hero dies in it, and the plain villagers are bounded by it as their neighbors are bounded by olive groves. The young men may lust for Smaragthi. but they lust even more for the sea and the role of boat's captain...