Word: ketched
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...record won him the British Distinguished Service Order and Military Cross, the French Legion of Honor and Croix de Guerre. With the same misleading modesty he insists that he is merely a "landsman"-but his new book is all about a voyage he made in his 31-ton ketch Truant two years ago, from England to Greece, via the English Channel, the rivers and canals of France, and the Mediterranean Sea. His crew consisted of wife Isabel, whom Millar describes as if she were a delicate platinum watch to which salt water would be fatal, but who suggests, in action...
...really now, did TIME [March 15] have to freeze the salt in this part-time sailor's heart by calling Tonga, my 60-ft. oceangoing ketch in which Gregory Peck and Leslie Charteris were holidaying, a "cruiser...
...TIME'S People editor is a ketch-as-ketch-can sailor...
...forward to a honeymoon in the Lebanese mountains. Gamal Kodsi has postponed his vacation until winter in the hope of accompanying Egypt's Olympic team to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Researcher Violet Price, who has scheduled a cruise among the Balearic Islands in a 55-ton ketch, adds this idyllic note: "If times were right and we could choose the ideal vacation for this part of the world, the vote would go for a lazy cruise through the Aegean Islands and perhaps a walking trip through the Peloponnesos. Sound nice...
...southwest. The breeze stayed fresh all the first day & night, the seas quiet. Nobody got sick. Most skippers, leery of the Gulf Stream's northeastward drift, worked up to windward (but the stream carried one boat 210 miles off course). First into the stream was the 54-ft. ketch Malabar XIII, skippered and designed by white-haired John G. Alden. The flat weather gave light-air boats all the breaks; schooners do their best in heavy weather with strong beam and following winds...