Word: craft
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Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus Reisman '31, who helped craft the House system and who was an associate of both Quincy and North Houses, says he is still in favor of the old system...
...school in Maine teaches the craft of wooden-boat building...
...classmates," all of whom are students at an unusual institution called, appropriately, the WoodenBoat School. Fascinated by boats in general and by wooden ones in particular, most have been avid readers of a bimonthly called WoodenBoat, and most have dreamed of acquiring the skills necessary to build their own craft. But few have had the time or the freedom to apprentice themselves to the small number of American boatbuilders who work in wood. "I'd like nothing better than to take a year off and learn the trade," says Alan ("Dusty") Rhoades, a Navy lieutenant commander attached to Atlantic...
...work building a pair of 11-ft. boats. Designed by Day as a cross between a traditional down-East dory and a flat-bottomed skiff, the boats are teaching tools. They feature three types of planking and require students to go through almost all the procedures involved in the craft of building a boat. "Boatbuilding is nothing if not practical," says Day. "You do things because they work...
...fleet, winning turned out to be a breeze. In the seven classes of boats, U.S. skippers took three gold medals and four silvers, followed by the Canadians and the New Zealanders, who sailed away with three medals each. The men at the helms of these swift, finicky craft needed the cunning of a chess player, the agility of a gymnast. And experience counted too. The most weathered sailor was Denmark's Paul Elvstrom, 59, career winner of four Olympic gold medals, whose daughter Trine served as crew. With Trine flying on the boat-stabilizing trapeze, the gray-bearded Elvstrom...