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...hands to the Road's tricky 14-mile course, the British quickly swung into a 3 to 1 lead, needed only one more victory to rule the waves. Then a minor disaster sent the Americans' fortunes even lower: the helmsman of Goose (from Oyster Bay, N.Y.) fell sick. U.S. Captain Herman Whiton had to reshuffle his whole lineup. But to everyone's surprise the U.S. took the next two races, evened the match. The deciding race was marked by the most seamanlike maneuver of the series. Running bow & bow with Britain's Johan, the American Llanoria...
...Helmsman's Helper. General Electric Co. showed off the "electric helmsman," a device that makes it possible to steer a ship from a number of stations other than the bridge. The "helmsman," already being installed on several Navy ships, is a portable control box which can be plugged into outlets leading from many parts of the ship to the steering mechanism in the stern. The helmsman's "wheel" is simply a knob on the control box. Sample uses: to replace the main steering station if the bridge is knocked out, or if the helmsman wants to steer from...
Pablo Picasso once warned a baffled interviewer not to "ask questions of the man at the wheel." People think he is sometimes off his course, but the aging (65) helmsman of modern art presumably knows where he is going. For 40 years he has let others debate his painting for him. The debate was hot as ever last week...
...helmsman, instead of the angry, seven-foot monster wheel of the first Cunarders, which flung men to the deck or threw them across the wheelhouse, there is finger-tip steering with a complex series of superhuman power boosters to swing the 140-ton rudder through churning seas. If the watch officer chooses, a gyro pilot will relieve the helmsman entirely and keep the ship on course. No leadsman need stand in the bow to take soundings, for the navigator has an acoustic-electric fathometer to tell him, at the press of a button, how much water is beneath the hull...
Suddenly one of the crew shouted something to the helmsman, but his warning was drowned by the children's singing. The launch plowed into a rusty underwater steel pylon, placed there by the Germans as an anti-submarine obstacle. For a moment the launch's prow hung in the air, then the stern slid swiftly under water. Without a punctuating pause, the children's songs became screams...