Word: oceanic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fiber-glass-hulled yawl named Rhubarb. Not only that, but Rhubarb's sister ship, Southern Star II, was third. Both brand new, the two boats were the work of 39-year-old William H. Tripp Jr.-a new designer who is currently the talk of ocean sailors, and who may prove to be the first real challenger in decades to the long dominance of Philip Rhodes and Olin Stephens in yacht design...
Tripp has been in business for himself only since 1951. Son of a civil engineer, blond, shock-haired Bill Tripp is a lifelong Long Islander, has sailed everything from the family Star boat to ocean racers and frostbite dinghies, put in a twelve-year apprenticeship with Designers Rhodes and Stephens. As with all unknowns in the cliquish yacht business, Tripp at first found the going tough. In 1955 he finally got a chance to design an ocean racer, the yawl Katingo. The boat promptly won the American Yacht Club cruise two years in succession...
Bill Tripp set to work on the fiberglass design in 1956 for a Connecticut lawyer named Frederick Lorenzen, who was dissatisfied with wooden boats ("I don't like them. They leak"). Many small boats have been built of fiber glass, but few of ocean-racing size. At the Beetle Boat Co. in East Greenwich, R.I., a fiberglass mold was built around a wooden mockup of Tripp's design. From the mold came the racers themselves, including Rhubarb, Southern Star II and Lorenzen's boat Seal. Last year the three sister yawls performed beautifully in the Newport...
Growlers & Brash. A small West German ocean-going trawler, the Johannes Krüss, and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell turned toward the stricken ship. Another German fishing trawler radioed that she was on the way. At 3:36 came the final message from the Hedtoft: "Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance." In Newfoundland, where U.S. and Canadian aircraft were grounded or turned back by the foul weather, search-and-rescue officers estimated that anyone forced into the freezing ocean would "last just over 60 seconds...
Once the gravitational variations had been measured, the NASA scientists could calculate their effect on the shape of the earth. The excess of gravitation around the North Pole, for instance, indicates an extra 200-ft. bulge of rock over an area equivalent to the Atlantic Ocean. This extra mass would attract enough sea water to raise sea level about 50 ft. above the theoretical curve of an ideally plastic earth. None of the newfound bulges are large compared to the polar spin-flattening (about 13 miles), but they may cast new light on the earth's mysterious interior...