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Boys & Girls Together. Prices for Burke's ten-day Windjammer Cruises through the Bahamas range from $185 for bachelor quarters (six men to a room) to $310 for deck cabins with private bath (only available on the Yankee Clipper). Inside cabins for two cost $210 per person, outside cabins $260. This buys everything, including one ration of 140-proof rum per day. The rest of the drinks are sold at about cost...
...this elaborately old-fashioned bawdy comedy sets out to prove. Captain Vasco Moscoso de Aragão, Master Mariner, is in fact a master fake. Craving romance, he has procured himself a license as ship's captain, though he has never set foot on an oceangoing deck. At 60 he "retires" to the seaside resort of Periperi, with silver hair, splendiferous uniforms, and an inexhaustible fund of nautical whoppers ranging from heroic shipwreck to Arab dancers of more than Oriental splendor in bed. One fine day Vasco is asked to take command of a real ship. Unrattled, the sofa...
...visible surface of Jupiter is a thick cloud-deck streaked with east-west bands. Its other conspicuous feature is the Great Red Spot, which has been observed since 1831 and is generally thought to be some kind of cloud floating high in the planet's thick atmosphere. But according to Dr. Smith, the Spot changed its period of rotation at about the same time the sources of radio signals changed. This may mean that the Spot and the signal are connected in some way. Planets cannot slow their rotation without some outside influence, and there is no influence known...
...romanticizing the life from the first, and it's necessary to counteract the impression immediately. If one word could characterize the vast majority of the hours, it would be boredom. In the Steward's Department, life is usually like that of any large hotel. Deck is more interesting, but you still sleep eleven hours a day, and would sleep more if you could. I've never met an officer who felt he had chosen the right career; for the crew, it's just wage-slavery. Hours on end I've looked into the wake, occasionally thinking but mostly glad...
After that trip, I've sailed on deck, with what is usually considered a better class of people. It might be profitable to explain ship (union) politics, or the sickness of the shipping industry, or what one actually does on a watch. (For the last item, as an ordinary seaman: 4 hours lookout, 2 hours standby and general labor, and perhaps 2 hours wheel-watch). But I'm seeking what is specific to the summertime sailor's experience; of which an infuriating helpless sympathy is a large part. They condemn you and your innocence, and still worship your education; Beretta...