Word: ruddering
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...make the big tankers more maneuverable-and thereby safer-British researchers have now proposed an ingenious modification of that ancient steering device, the rudder. In essence, a rudder works by altering the flow of water around it so that one side begins to experience greater pressure than the other. If the rudder is swung to starboard (right), for instance, pressure on that side will increase and lessen on the other. As a result the stern, or tail end, of the boat will swing to port (left) and the bow, or front, to starboard. Moreover, the turn will become sharper...
...victory in the Hoyt Trophy. All-New England Charlie Koch, sailing in A-division with crew Edgar Pulitzer, was low-point skipper for the regatta. Chris Middendorf, with Doug Libby, in B-division, sailed well but was twice the victim of disaster. In the first race, Middendorf lost a rudder and his second place finish shortly before crossing the line. In the next race, finding himself in first place ten yards before the finish, he capsized. With the gust of wind, first place and the Hoyt trophy slipped through Crimson slippery hands. Harvard finished third behind Tufts...
...courage and statesmanship unparalleled by any U.S. chief executive for at least a third of a century," and the Baltimore Sun approved "an activist flexing of government muscles not seen since the early Roosevelt experiments." "No longer," noted the Miami Herald, "is the American economy all sail and no rudder." Cartoonists portrayed Nixon variously as a parody of Roosevelt, ministering belatedly to a crippled economy, or carping at his critics before television cameras...
...F.D.R., and the Democratic Party was split (Strom Thurmond had deserted to run as a right-wing candidate, Henry Wallace as a left-wing challenger). Voters yearned for tranquillity, and Dewey, running a campaign designed to avoid controversy, promptly put them to sleep. Soothingly, he pleaded: "We need a rudder to our ship of state, a firm hand at the tiller...
...been dubbed "the tadpole." Valiant's keel is smaller than the old Intrepid's, her trim tab larger. A Stephens innovation for 12-meters, the trim tab on the aft end of the keel helps to reduce drift to leeward and can be used as an auxiliary rudder in tight turns. Valiant's reverse transom rolls down more smoothly toward the waterline, reducing excess weight in hull and deck. As with Intrepid, Valiant's ten-man crew work their winches below deck, thereby lowering wind resistance as well as the boat's center of gravity...