Word: keel
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Head Over Keels. The boots, developed with the approval of the Royal Navy, consist of a pair of 30-lb., 4-ft.-long wood and polystyrene boxes, each hollowed and fitted with water-ski foot grips. Each box has a 3-in. keel and is painted dark red, with WALK NAVY lettered in white on the side...
...education. So many of the old-timers have retired or gone to pasture at some desk job that the patrol force is lopsidedly young and inexperienced. Inexperience may not be a virtue (or it may be, for that matter), but it puts you on an even keel with your fellow officers only a few months after you arrive in the precinct. Today you can get a good sampling of the job in a year or two, where a decade ago it took years just to be lifted from exclusive foot patrol and placed in a car. The patrolman...
...electronic gear ever carried on a sailboat, including a tape device that plots the boat's course as well as a small computer that tells Skipper Bill Ficker his true speed toward the mark (as opposed to speed through the water). Below the waterline, Chance installed a smaller keel and restyled the stern with a V-shaped bustle. Result: a remarkable 18% increase in Intrepid 's theoretical speed...
Consistent Superiority. The changes that Chance made on Intrepid-shorter keel, rounder bow, fuller afterbody -have obviously made the white-hulled sloop swifter than ever. What is astonishing is that she may actually be a faster boat than Stephens' brand-new Valiant. Her first two races around the triangular 24.3-mile course set the pattern for the trials. With Picker at the helm, Intrepid handily defeated the trial horse Weatherly by 3 min. 55 sec., and then trounced Heritage by the embarrassing margin...
...meter cup winners-Columbia in 1958, Constellation in 1964 and Intrepid in 1967. His latest design is a beamy, white-and-gold sloop that stretches 63 ft. in length. Broad in her forward sections and slim in the stern, she has been dubbed "the tadpole." Valiant's keel is smaller than the old Intrepid's, her trim tab larger. A Stephens innovation for 12-meters, the trim tab on the aft end of the keel helps to reduce drift to leeward and can be used as an auxiliary rudder in tight turns. Valiant's reverse transom rolls...