Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sleek, 2,200-ton yacht Lapu Lapu knifed across Tokyo Bay on a trial run at 17 knots, and in her wake eddied a succession of troubles for Carlos Garcia, President of the Philippine Republic. One of 15 ocean-going vessels to be built by the Japanese as war reparations to the Philippines, the Lapu Lapu* cost $2,500,000, is 275 feet long and powered by diesel engines. She will carry a crew of 92, and has room for 48 passengers...
Unceremoniously kicked out of their sea-air bases by newly independent and neutralist Ceylon, the British decided to set up new bases farther south on the placid island of Gan in the Maldives, a splatter of palm-fringed dots in the Indian Ocean 400 miles from Ceylon. There are only 93,000 Maldivians-nut-brown, peaceable folk who have been under the wing of the British Empire since 1802. The world has largely passed the Maldives by. But six years ago, after 800 years of Sultanate rule, the Maldives became a republic. Their first President abolished purdah, designed a Mother...
...there is oil in the North, Minister Hamilton sees a vision of atomic-powered submarine tankers loading up from pipelines linking island interiors to the coast, then hauling their cargo under the ice to European markets. Equally visionary was Deputy Minister Gordon Robertson's suggestion to build an ocean pipeline from Ellesmere Island to Europe-a shorter distance, he pointed out, than Interprovincial pipeline spans between Edmonton and Toronto. Said Robertson: "It would be the wildest folly and the grossest arrogance to say that these things will not, in due course, be quite possible. The 'Far North...
Rhubarb and her sisters have been named Block Island Forties. They are centerboarders, wider than most ocean racers, and with a unique rounded stem. In the closemouthed tradition of naval architects, Tripp will say only that his design "follows my ideas in relation to resistance and lateral plane, ideas which are somewhat different from some my competitors hold." Lawyer Lorenzen is a little more specific. "It's quite a trick to get a boat with tremendous stability and not too much underbody," he says. "Bill draws his lines very tight. His lines at the forward section are very fine...
...ocean racers have been produced from the Tripp-designed mold. At least four, and probably more, will follow. After last week's triumph, many an ocean sailor was eying one of Designer Tripp's Block Island Forties for himself...