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...keel sloop Auralyn about 250 miles northeast of the Galapagos Islands. The boat suffered a fatal portside hole below the waterline. Within an hour, the couple-who had been on their way from native England to New Zealand-embarked on a spectacular survival adventure in a round, covered rubber raft roped to a nine-foot dinghy. The publisher claims that the Baileys set a record-117 days*-for time adrift following a shipwreck. Though each lost about 40 pounds, suffered vitamin deficiencies and the raft-man's excruciating equivalent of bed sores, their condition was far from critical when...
...repeatedly swamped the dinghy. Spirits soared-and fell-as seven ships maddeningly passed within one or two miles without sighting the Baileys. Future transoceanic yachtspersons who think that waving a shirt attracts nautical attention will be sobered by the Baileys' experience. Sharks kept bumping the bottom of the raft, whether in hopes of turning it over or simply scratching their backs the Baileys could never decide...
...pavilion inside has an al fresco feeling and a cinema with the largest screen in the world (nine stories wide, six stories high). It features a film on U.S. ecology that opens with a soaring, swooping flight into the Grand Canyon and winds up with a rip-roaring raft ride down the Colorado River. Another section, called "The Consumer and the Environment," has as displays a collection of abandoned consumer goods and an assemblage of old bathtubs and sinks around a fountain, illustrating, in Pop art fashion, Americans' prodigal waste of water...
Ward gave the "most out to lunch" award to the Tommy's Lunch raft. "Tommy's Lunch spent $250.00 on materials and had ten mechanics to put the raft together," Ward said yesterday, "but somebody got mixed up and thought the race was on Sunday so they didn't show...
Adams House's sole raft finished dead last in the race but won an award for "the raft most likely to have been conceived while on an acid trip...