Word: riggings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drilling rig and its surrounding shacks lay dim in the dawnlike light of Arctic high noon one day last week. Suddenly the direct rays of the sun, unseen for more than a month, spilled over the bleak horizon and splashed against the top of the 127-ft. derrick. Getting a nod of assent from the driller, Eskimo Roughneck Elijah Allen, 22, darted to the derrick ladder and scampered up the frosted rungs. As he neared the top, he turned his happy moonface into the thin yellow light and yelled a piercing greeting...
...Among the plastic sail fleet: a 17-ft. Thistle sloop ($1,875 without sails), Cape Cod Shipbuilding's 23-ft. Marlin day sailor ($5,500 without sails), the 25-ft. New Horizons auxiliary sloop ($8,950 with sails), and the 41-ft. Bounty II with a new yawl rig to improve its racing potential. Newest members of the flotilla are the catamarans, which will easily outspeed many power boats. Among them: Pearson Corp.'s 17-ft. Tiger Cat ($1,795 without sails), which last year won the One-of-a-Kind Regatta against 39 other one-design small...