Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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American Eagle, which hit the water at Stamford, Conn, last week, is Boatbuilder A. E. ("Bill") Luders' first Cup yacht and the most daring twelve ever designed. Other twelves have slightly crowned decks to add strength to the hull; Eagle's is pancake flat to give the crew better footing and to lower the center of gravity so the boat will stand up straighter in strong winds. Most modern twelves have a reverse-sloping transom-an ugly but useful device to save weight-but Luders achieves the same end by tapering deck and hull to a pointed stern...
Died. Admiral Kichisaburo Nomura, 86, Japan's Ambassador to the U.S. on Dec. 7, 1941, who called on Secretary of State Cordell Hull one hour after Japanese bombs had fallen on Pearl Harbor to deliver a note breaking off peace talks because of "U.S. bad faith"; of a stroke; in Tokyo. At least to Westerners, Nomura will be best remembered for the tongue-lashing administered by Hull: "In my 50 years of public service I have never seen a document more crowded with infamous falsehoods and distortions, on a scale so huge that 1 never imagined until today that...
...There, the 9,800-ton U.S. aircraft-transport ship Card was sinking fast -it touched bottom in just 24 minutes-into the silt of the Saigon River, a 28-ft. by 3-ft. hole ripped in her starboard side. Apparently Viet Cong agents had placed plastic charges on the hull 10 ft. below the water line...
Deep & Level. The Miami-to-Nassau race is practically a Bertram monopoly. Bertram won it with Moppie in 1960, the first year he ever entered, and his boats have won it each year since. Key to his success is the unique hull design of his boats, brainchild of famed Boston Naval Architect Ray Hunt. Most powerboats are sharply V'd at the bow, but the hull flattens out to provide a smooth "planing" surface near the stern. In the Bertrams, the "deep V" runs all the way aft to the transom, and the smooth sides of their hulls...
...Bertrams were having their own woes. Harold Abbott's Rum Runner developed a 4-ft.-long crack in the cabin; the radio was smashed, and a reinforcing stringer had broken loose from the hull. In Lucky Moppie, every time Bertram tried to switch to his main fuel tank, his engines quit. Then, maneuvering at the check-in station on Cat Cay, Lucky Moppie slammed into another boat, knocking it into a sea wall and out of contention. Miraculously, Lucky Moppie kept going...