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Last week Gretel was back in the water with her new look-sharper in the bow, smaller in the keel, wider in the beam. All her crew got was the same old look: a view of Dame Panic's transom. Five times the two boats raced, and five times Pattie won-by margins ranging from 2 min. 12 sec. to 5 min. 22 sec. Owner Packer tried switching skippers; that did not seem to help either. Gretel finally did manage to win one race-when Pattie split three jibs at the seams-but experts agreed that her cause...
...Pattie, convincingly trounced Gretel in a series of shakedown races off Sydney. Nothing would do then except to rebuild Gretel yet another time. Back she went to the yard, where, at a cost of $44,800, shipwrights stripped off all her double hull planking, altered every frame, shortened her keel and covered her again with single splined planks...
Alumni magazines are thought of as a dreary and predictable breed of journals. Turn to page three and you'll find the news of the college, carefully edited to show the institution advancing on an even keel to educational greatness. Near the middle' will be an exhaustive report on the college's latest fund-raising campaign and then come page after page of class notes detailing the life records of hundreds of people you never knew...
...Dame Pattie, a new twelve that is owned by a Melbourne syndicate headed by Emil Christensen, 71, a food processor. Gretel is not the same boat that lost to the U.S.'s Weatherly in 1962. Three feet have been lopped off her stern; her cockpit, deck equipment and keel have all been greatly altered. To win the challenger's role, however, Gretel will have to beat Dame Pattie-and that may be quite a chore...
...happen to 1826 and its buoyant crew. German prisoners try to escape, and 1826 almost gets blown to smithereens by a mine. Young Seaman Peter Carlyle is hauled up before a general court martial for carrying Navy supplies to his Italian sweetheart. Lieut. (j.g.) Matthew Barclay falls head over keel with an Army nurse who plays the piano. Finally, there is a chilling climax that shows that Brinkley has not been writing a situation comedy at all but a situation tragedy. Even so, the reader's interest is likely to reach deep six well before the 1826 does...