Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...responsible only to Queen Elizabeth II, announced that she planned to surrender the sovereignty of her 3-mile-long-by-H-mile-wide island to neighboring Guernsey, eight miles farther out in the English Channel. Her 575 subjects were aghast. "The Dame has put us in a small boat and pushed us down the river," groused Philip Perree, a hotelkeeper. "We have no wish to be ruled by the bureaucrats of Guernsey...
...life can stand as a kind of example for the harried leisure class. He does not own a swimming pool, a boat or a summer cottage and frowns on watching television while eating dinner, reading the newspaper or making love. His way of using consumption time -Linderese for leisure-is to take a walk somewhere. This month he and his 9-year-old son Goran will leave for a hike through the mountains of Da-larna in central Sweden...
...world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...
Crowhurst's damaged boat was found in the mid-Atlantic 81 months after he set out from the resort town of Teign-mouth on the southern coast of Eng land. His position, 700 miles southwest of the Azores, indicated that he was front runner for the fastest time. Though Crowhurst, 36, was missing, his logbooks, which gradually lapsed into incoherence, provide a revealing case study of the effects of extended solitude...
...This bloody boat is falling to pieces!" he wrote after eleven days at sea. After two weeks, Crowhurst surmised that he was running dead last in the race, and began debating in his small, neat handwriting whether he should chuck the whole thing and put in for home. But he noted that he needed the $12,000 prize money to solve his financial problems. Depressed and once physically ill, he devoted long passages to his inability to admit failure, even when he realized it was certain. "Superficial assessments of success or failure are worthless," he rationalized...