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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Today's blue-water skippers are a bit more specific than John Masefield. Their pragmatic doggerel runs: "Give me a Cal-40 and some racing luck, and I'll win Bermuda, Transpac and Mackinac." In less than three years of ocean competition, the 40-ft. fiber-glass sloops from California have become the tallest boats in U.S. racing, sailing off with virtually every major trophy...
...formula that calculates waterline length against sail area to determine the boat's racing handicap. Ordinarily a designer slaves to achieve the lowest possible rating, thus the highest handicap. Designer Bill Lap-worth, 46, who had been teaming with Builder Jack Jensen, 40, for five years on smaller fiber-glass models, didn't even consider the matter...
...course, no blue-water yachtsman is completely happy unless he can find something to grouse about. "She's noisy and her fiber-glass hull sweats so that she's definitely clammy," says America's Cup Veteran Bus Mosbacher, whose Cal-40 finished a respectable eighth in the Newport-Bermuda race. Others complain that she lacks speed on a reach (sailing across the wind) and shudder at her dumpy, short-bowed, ugly-duckling looks. "Why don't you make your boats prettier?" asked a friend recently. Grinned Designer Lapworth, "They get prettier every time they...
Made of polypropylene fiber, a common petroleum byproduct, Ozite Town 'N' Terrace carpet does not absorb moisture, resists acids, grease, mildew, children and dogs-and can be cleaned by a simple hosing down. Originally intended mainly for patios, Ozite is spreading to schools, supermarkets, kitchens, and is carpeting yachts gunwale to gunwale. Dyed cardinal red, it was used last year to cover the altar set up in Yankee Stadium for Pope Paul's visit. Hoping that consumers will think up more tasks for the product, admen have settled on a simple slogan: "Use your imagination...
Worthington Foods Inc. takes edible soybean fiber produced by Ralston Purina, turns it into meatless frankfurters, roast beef and fried chicken, sells them to Seventh-day Adventists and vegetarians. Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. is testing a soy beverage to be sold in powder form, and Central Soya has developed an ice cream-like frozen dessert made of soybeans...