Word: cruisers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Some states have licensing requirements for boats, but none have licenses for their pilots, who are all too likely to turn the ignition key in their new power cruiser and gun away from the dock without even having a chart of the waters or the know-how to read it if they did. The Coast Guard crew at Stepping Stones Light Station off New York City, where Long Island Sound meets the East River, spends a large part of the summer frantically waving a towel to warn sloppy skippers off the nearby reef. The shoal is covered with only...
...between a jib and a jibe, a man who ventured upon the water in any vessel, large or small, did so with a lively respect for the perils of the deep and an awareness that the mariner's world required special skills and knowledge. Today the ubiquitous cabin cruiser seems to many a Sunday skipper like nothing more than a watertight version of the car he left parked at the marina, while the outboard motor has evolved from a poky put-put to a roaring, soaring substitute for a jet fighter plane. The result is a whole...
...recognized as a hostile act carrying with it the risk of war. A covert operation, however, is one accepted as "a peacetime avenue of action which, when used, will not upset international apple carts." In Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 state visit to Britain aboard a Soviet heavy cruiser, British Frogman Lionel Crabb mysteriously died in Portsmouth harbor while trying to examine the cruiser's hull. Yet the state visit continued and official relations remained unruffled because London followed the code by calmly disowning the dead frogman. The rule here, says Author Felix, is that "a covert operation...
...Prince and Princess emerge from the palace, jump into a small car. and speed down the highway. No, no, no, says the man from the ad agency: it looks almost like a European car. A second take. The Prince and Princess emerge from the boathouse, hop into a cabin cruiser and speed across the harbor. Exactly...
...well-established U.S. tradition, there was plenty of wall-to-wall luxury in the 500-odd models on display, from the lowliest stinkpot to the "queen" of the show-a 45-ft. 5½-in. cruiser by the Century Boat Co., packed with spacious, gracious air-conditioned living for $61,670. Royalty is relative-this queen would be a mere lady in waiting to the great custom-built yachts of the world. And even at the Coliseum she was queen by a bare 3 in.; the Greenwich Yacht Co. offered one 45 ft. 2½ in. long for only...