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...make sense out of what they finally decided they had seen. First to finish the 635-mile thrash to the "onion patch" was the 64-ft. yawl Good News. Overall winner on corrected time, for the second time in a row, was Carleton Mitchell's beamy keel-and-centerboard yawl Finisterre...
...Navigating with just the kind of seamanlike skill his grey-hulled, centerboard yawl Finisterre deserved, Skipper Carleton Mitchell logged a corrected time of 28 hr. 14 min. 39 sec. to win the 184-mile sail from Miami to Nassau, B.W.I. Victor in 25 of the 40 races he has entered, Skipper Mitchell decided to ease off the wind, announced that after one more effort he will refrain from racing for a while...
...hand-rode her lovingly to catch every puff of wind as she bowled past Bermuda's St. David's Head at 9:10 a.m. one day last week. Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessary-the broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally passage for the record field of 89 boats, and one had even gone down on a Bermuda reef. But Finisterre...
...straight year in the Lucian Sharpe Trophy competition, defeating Crimson sailors, and teams from the University of Rhode Island, Brown, Princeton, Dartmouth, and the Coast Guard Academy. Crimson skipper in the "B" division, Addie Closson, had a tough break in the third heat when he was disqualified because his centerboard became fouled in the anchor line of the windward marker. In the "A" division, Fred Hoppin won the seventh heat, but it was not enough to place the Crimson high in the final standings...
Home Builder. Plastics were also well represented at the show. Beetle Boat Co., Inc.'s 12½-ft. centerboard sailboat was molded in one piece of Fiberglas. From his Tulsa factory, Gar Wood Jr. flew in two 16-ft. speedboats pressed from a plastic called "Nautilite." Other novelties: seat cushions with phosphorescent side-strips, non-tipping gasoline cans, an automatic pilot for outboard motors, a mechanism which automatically frees snagged outboard propellers...