Word: chubasco
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...days on end, the tough little clipper rides the fierce chubasco, as lightning sprouts like trees on the horizon, and the towering waves break over her stout prow. Then south to the Galapagos, "the ash heap of the world." Off these volcanic isles another scoop is made for bait. On the ledges of the overhanging rocks, the huge iguana rustle, and at night a volcano spews its fairy fires. Day after day no fish, and days become weeks. The ship sets course for Peru, and there, after 13 weeks at sea, the big latch is made at last...
...night the leaders were expected in, hundreds of Hawaiians watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours later, Morgan's Dolphin II sailed past Diamond Head, the winner. Corrected time (after subtracting more...
...Portuguese tuna-clipper returns to port after riding out a "chubasco" (tropical) storm off the Mexican coast. After two days & nights at the wheel the skipper, marooned in his pilot house, began to long to pray. The boat's tiny chapel was well aft, had to be reached across the open deck. Somehow the skipper made it, only to find the chapel empty of its gear. Desperate for something to pray to he tore a calendar off a locker wall, prayed to the figure printed on it. A few hours later the storm went down. Reporter Miller takes...
...packed the enclosure; Britishers, brought to the scene by a fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...
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