Word: boated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...invention that he is particularly enthusiastic about is a hydro-foil sailboat designed to sail at twice the speed of the wind propelling it. The boat was a finalist in the 1981 international Rolex Awards for enterprise...
What Salzman's Chinese acquaintances lacked in cheek coloring they made up in generosity and frankness. A family of poor fishermen he befriended insisted that he accept a gift of their boat (he dissuaded them with difficulty). When he brought out his cello to play for the family, they rushed across the room "to touch the divine object -- the red velvet lining inside the cello case." An aging athlete, posing for a snapshot, inquired gravely if it is true that in America, where "everything is modernized," there are ways of adding hair to photographs? "If you could do that...
...human eye, the animals so often seem mirages: now you see them, now you don't. Later, just after dusk, Abyssinian nightjars discover the magic wash of the headlight beams. The birds flit in and out of the barrels of light, like dolphins frisking before a boat's prow. The Land Cruiser jostles, in four-wheel drive, across black volcanic stones toward the camp, the driver steering by the distant light-speck of the cooking fire...
Still, his art was not lost on the relatively inexperienced sailors of Kookaburra III. "They thrashed us with a better boat," said Rick Goodrich, a Queensland cowboy grinding his first winch. And with more than just the boat. Starting Helmsman Peter Gilmour, who jockeyed for Murray in the pre-race maneuvers, imagined on the last day that he had succeeded in cajoling Conner over the line prematurely. "Then I remembered something," he said. "It's Dennis...
...three-year effort had got away from the Corinthian aspects of yachting." All told, some $200 million was spent in the past three years by seven nations fighting over a $700 silver pitcher. Of course, it is not just a trophy, and it is not only a boat race. It's a marketplace, a space program, an Olympic Games. Cockpits and boardrooms. Commercialism is bound to proliferate now, probably next time to the point of boat decals and spinnaker ads. If Baseball Emperor George Steinbrenner had been a little more forthcoming, Conner might have painted this boat with pinstripes...