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...Outstanding design departure is a 17ft. reinforced-plastic motorboat by Outboard Marine. It has a three-keeled hull which, say the manufacturers, reduces pounding at high speeds. Like a number of other boats in the show, Outboard Marine's is equipped with an inboard-outboard (80 h.p.) engine, a style that is increasing in popularity. This design allows for use of the more efficient and con venient in-line inboard engine, and at the same time provides the advantage of an outboard drive, i.e., allowing the propeller to be raised for shallow channels and for beaching. Price...
...village, the two men traded shells and axes, got back more than 50 pieces of native art. In some villages they were guests at missions of the Crozier Fathers, to whom Michael showed off his catamaran, two native canoes lashed together by planks and powered by an 18-h.p. outboard motor. Mission priests warned that the coastal tides swelled 20 feet high, surged 75 miles upriver and out again with a force that overpowered even the best native rowers. A 30-ft. catamaran, they warned, was unsafe...
...their last day together, Rockefeller, Wassing and two natives left Agats, boarded the catamaran, pushed off for the village of Atsj, 25 miles down the coast. As Wassing told it later, the catamaran shipped water in a rolling sea; despite bailing, it foundered and the outboard was swamped. The two natives swam to shore to get assistance; the two white men stayed with the boat...
...Italy for a U.S. $5 bill. Manufactured by National Rejectors Inc., the machine reads the $5 bill electronically, and if it approves of it, tucks it away and dispenses a small pasteboard box containing the foreign currency required, with the change in U.S. coins (less a 30? charge). CJ Outboard engine with an automatic clutch, manufactured by Johnson Motors, which enables boatmen to shift through reverse, neutral and forward speeds without first having to operate a manual clutch. The first such feature to be added to outboards, the automatic transmission uses electromagnets to move the clutch assemblies. Prices: from...
Summer Sports Spectacular (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).-On the Mississippi River at St. Paul, Minn., entrants from all over the free world compete in the international outboard motorboat championships...