Word: endymion
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Schooner or cutter (TiME, Dec. 13), no ship in the world has appeared more beautiful to anyone than did Donald Douglas' Endymion to my family and me one Sunday afternoon in the Catalina channel...
...fire on our gasoline-powered cruiser had become uncontrollable when, by gunfire, we finally attracted the attention of the crew of the Endymion. . . . The master seamanship displayed in coming about, dropping sail, getting under power and coming alongside for the rescue, all in an amazingly short time, would have been a marvelous sight to anyone, but to us-you can imagine...
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There may be a painting of a schooner over Donald Douglas' mantel, but Endymion today is a cutter. Thousands of Los Angeles yachtsmen, familiar with Endymion's magnificent single stick, remember that she was converted to a more modern rig a number of years...
...Douglas . . . explains, "We're just a bunch of middle-aged fellows getting too lazy to handle a schooner." But schooner men take one look at Endymion's circus-tent mainsail and incredible mast and feel faintly ill. . . . Anyone who has seen the Douglas yacht charging home from Catalina of a Sunday afternoon, romping past other craft, both sail and power, knows that her owner sails her like a man possessed...