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...headlong amateur sailor who combined prayer and oratory with his seamanship, he sailed his ketch Nona strenuously and recklessly round the dangerous coasts of Great Britain in a good deal of foul weather, until he was an old man. His wife, an American, had died in 1914; his eldest son Louis was killed in World War I. When his youngest son, Peter, lost his life in World War II, Belloc gave up letters. He was already an old man. He lived on in his Sussex farmhouse, a short, stout figure, red of face, wearing a collar several times too large...
...articles come from yachtsmen (rate: $105 per 3,500-word article) who, with the help of Yachting's editors, set down their experiences with loglike authenticity. For the more practical-minded, the magazine runs boat plans and tips on everything from racing to cooking eggs Benedict in a ketch's galley...
When Ann Davison and .her husband Frank set out from England to sail around the world in 1949, their high adventure ended in sudden tragedy. A howling English Channel gale sent their old, 70-ft. ketch Reliance crashing on to the rocks off Portland Bill, and Davison was drowned. Ann told the story of that ill-fated trip in a bestselling book, Last Voyage (TIME, March 24, 1952), and resolved to sail alone on the first lap of the adventure she and her husband had planned together...
Davis was the first man ever to sail eastward across the South Pacific during the winter. He made the voyage in a 48-foot ketch with a crew of two, his wife, and two sons. On November 2nd, after five months of sailing, his boat arrived in Cambridge...
...order to test the validity of the Kon-Tiki theory, Davis left Wellington, New Zealand, last June in a 48-foot ketch, with a crew of two besides his wife and two children. The five month trip carried the group through the wild South Pacific winter and the worst gale to hit New Zealand waters in the last 30 years, reaching here December...