Word: jib
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...skipper stays tucked inside the cockpit in roughly the position of someone sitting on a chaise longue. He steers the boat with a foot bar. In addition, the mini-12s boast more sails and ways to adjust them than most small boats. Besides carrying a mainsail and a Genoa jib, a mini-12 can hoist a spinnaker, those colorful parachute-like sails flown when a ship sails downwind...
...whines that he is "going to have to live with that smelly thing for the rest of my life." In a characteristic gesture, he appoints his current mistress as Caroline's lady of the bedchamber. For her part, Caroline quickly takes the cut of the prince's jib and calls him a "slobbering, drunken, effeminate...
...management to learn what sails have been ordered, and how sales are going. Ted Hood, the company's head, is recognized as one of the world's greatest sailmakers and yachtsmen. On a freezing cold and rainy day last winter he was out with his crew testing a new jib for the Courageous, the 12-meter boat he will skipper in the America's Cup races this summer. The lower right photograph shows the result of this particular test...
...Voice, turned 25, his father-in-law, Manhattan Radio Station Owner R. Peter Straus, took him to breakfast to discuss the young man's future employment prospects. Straus brought along Norman Cousins, editor of Saturday Review since he turned 25 in 1940. Cousins "liked the cut of his jib" and last week found something for young Tucker to do: buy and then edit Saturday Review. The price was from $3 million to $6.5 million, depending on various future expenses, and part of the money comes from the Straus and Tucker families. Cousins, 61, will stay on as editor...
Sail area: main and jib...