Word: patolita
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...night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
...Patolita v. Garbage. The gale blew itself out, but the near-dead calm that followed was almost as bad. The luckless Patolita radioed that she was having a race with her own floating garbage. Dolphin II found a breezier area...
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