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...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...
Boots and belts, hats and handbags, shirts, shawls, coats and evening gowns, even linens, lampshades and wallpaper - all bear the stamp of the serpent. Genuine cobra can be had as a raincoat, simulated copperhead as upholstery fab ric. And women known to keel over at a photograph of a python are now swaddling themselves in the real thing...
...event is the 28th Coast Guard Academy Inviational Sunday morning with the Hap Moore Trophy going to the winner. The competition tests the depth and versatility of the teams through races in three different kinds of boats-Raven Class sloops with spinnakers, keel knockabouts, and international 12-foot dinghies...
...JOHN A. KEEL Manhattan...
...distill a universal wisdom. In the Samoan fishing culture, which is dependent on the canoe, islanders would have no difficulty in recognizing the kinship of the English proverb, "It never rains but it pours," to one of their own: "It leaks at the gunwale, it leaks in the keel." From the Biblical injunction, "An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth," it is only a short and negotiable step to an old saying of the Nandi tribe in East Africa: "A goat's hide buys a goat's hide and a gourd a gourd...