Word: gaffes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prospect of a floating sculpture is particularly pleasing for Grosvenor because he has had long experience with the sea. Born rich and raised in the rich stretches of Newport's Ocean Drive, he sails his own 20-ft. gaff-rigged sloop. After studying architecture in Paris, he experimented with abstract expressionist painting and junk sculpture in a Manhattan loft. Then one day he stepped into an elevator that wasn't there, and the fall broke both his legs. In the course of his six-months' hospitalization he meditated and discovered his true bent. Today he first sketches...
Dozens of other anglers have tangled with Big Daddy-and always come off second best. A few years ago, Bermuda's Captain Russell Young had an epic 31-hour battle with a marlin that he estimated at 15 ft. long. Young actually brought the fish to gaff six times. Each time the gaff tore loose, and Big Daddy finally escaped when the line parted. Last year Dr. Lyman Spire of Fayetteville, N.Y., was trolling off St. Thomas in the Virgin Islands when a monster blue crashed the bait on his ul tralight 12-lb.-test line. Spire...
...worth it. Last August, off Conception Bay, Newfoundland, Veteran Angler Lee Wulff, 63, set a world record by landing a 597-lb. bluefin tuna on 50-lb.-test line. Wulff played that bulldog of the deep for 13½ hr. before finally coaxing it to gaff. "Now I know," he sighed afterward, "what a guy feels like when he has climbed a mountain for the first time...
...none other than her husband. The feat qualified her for membership in sport fishing's most prestigious organization: the Ten-to-One Club, started in 1960 by the Miami Beach Rod and Reel Club and limited to "those anglers who, unaided, set the hooks, fight and bring to gaff a fish weighing ten times the wet test of the line used...
...least he doesn't have to live with the experience of New York Attorney Frank Bramm, who connected off Montauk. Bramm battled the fish for two hours, skillfully thwarting his every stratagem. At last he maneuvered him to within 10 ft. of the boat. Leader up! Ready to gaff! At that point, Bramm was so excited that the cigar tumbled from his teeth and-Poing!-burned through the fiddletaut line...