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...admirers, "always seems to fit into the tradition of the Grand Banks fishing schooner and the opium clipper." Odd combination? Not for the offshore sailors to whom Garden has given long-keeled boats that are easy on the helm. Not on ocean passages, when a snug Garden rig teaches the enjoyment of what the designer calls "chasing off before the wind under boisterous conditions...
...Colvin himself is one of that cruising minority. Gazelle was not built for a client; she was built for the Col vin family, and she has taken them more than 10,000 miles in every weather. Her Chinese rig is the product of years of research and practical trial. For an experienced sailor like Colvin, who first went to sea at 14 on a three-masted schooner, the steel hull with its full-battened sails represents just about the ultimate in versatility, strength and simplicity...
...major enterprises are already flourishing. One is a moving company headed by Pete Diaz, 29, who grew up in Manhattan's Spanish Harlem and began mainlining heroin at eleven. He learned to drive a tractor-trailer rig when he was twelve, and served five years for armed robbery before he turned 21. At first, Diaz says, "four of us rented trucks from Hertz and moved our friends. Now we've built up to twelve people, the family owns a van, and we cover any job within 100 miles." An equally succcessful member is Andy Nikolatos, 23, who comes...
California home-swimming pool, sauna, $10,000 stereo rig and all the things that ease the pressure of life and enable one to move ahead...
...England regional title, will be facing a Big Red team that have not lost since dropping a surprising 4-0 Ivy League game to Harvard October 21 Cornell topped previously unbeaten Long Island University by an identical 32 score Monday for the New York regional crown. It was the Rig Red's twelfth victory of the season against three losses. The Crimson's season mark now stands...