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For 72 hours the five men hung lashed to the rigging, scanning the horizon. Then, early on October 1 they spied a vessel steering southwest through the high running sea. Closer and closer it came, finally hove to less than a mile off. Frantic, the wrecked sailors waved their jackets...
Zaca Venture tells, with many digressions, of a round-trip cruise of the 118-foot Zaca from San Diego down the coast of Lower California and up the Gulf of California to Guaymas with pauses for dredging, diving, fishing. Although it begins with an account of Beebe's sensational...
One beckoning September day four years ago, sandy-haired, 21-year-old Dwight Long, restless son of a Seattle builder, chucked his junior studies at the University of Washington and pointed his snug, white, 32-foot ketch Idle Hour out of Puget Sound. Before him lay the glamorous uncertainty of...
Slim as a lancet, her trim superstructure melting into as slick an air-flow contour as any Hollywood futurist ever conceived, the 112-foot triple-screw yacht Q. E. D. poised one afternoon last week ready to glide down her skids for a maiden wetting in the ebbing waters of...
In a music hall styled after an interior view of a bunch of bananas, the white-haired pianist who once ruled his native Poland blinks out upon a parquet stage, bows to an effete-looking audience, sits down to play. The camera closes up, revealing a white, death-mask face...