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...lessen drag, Eagle's new tab-shaped rudder is much smaller than usual and is tucked farther forward than in most twelves. And for a jib, she will carry a huge new cross-cut genoa that is supposed to hold its shape better than old jibs. Eagle's 36-man syndicate is headed by Pierre du Pont and New York Yacht Club Commodore H. Irving Pratt and includes the recently divorced Mrs. Briggs Cunningham who donated the same silver dollar to place under Eagle's mast that rode under Columbia's when Cunningham captained...
...twelve, comes from Olin Stephens, 56, who has already designed two of the world's fastest twelves, Vim and Columbia. She is, he says, "a lot like Columbia, with some tendency to fill out the bow more." But he does have a few new tricks: a scimitar-shaped rudder something like Eagle's and a radical new mast whose top third is made out of titanium, and can be bent back by guy wires without danger of snapping, to give the sails the best possible set. Under Constellation's mast is a spike from its Revolutionary...
...Washington's hesitant and plainly inadequate move in that direction is represented by the multilateral force (MLF), a clumsy concept loved by no soldier, which foresees a boat in some distant sea with a Russia-aimed bomb on board. At the throttle is a German and at the rudder a Briton. Luxembourgeois, Belgians and Dutchmen run the galley, and a Frenchman (if he can be enticed on board at all) is topside yelling "to port" while an Italian beside him shouts "to starboard." Use of the Bomb itself would happen only on U.S. orders. To Gaullists, U.S. insistence...
...their handiwork in that condition. When a control switch was pressed, a mechanical reaction occurred opposite to what was intended. For example, pushing a "down" button on the periscope caused it to go up. Thresher crew members found this flaw themselves, naturally insisted yard workers correct it. - Plane and rudder mechanisms that control dive and cruising angles were still being repaired the night before the submarine went...
Princeton's man-made Lake Carnegie has many lurking pitfalls, not the least of which are an average depth of four feet and an abundance of weeds. Princeton sailors are accomplished experts at cleaning weeds out of the rudder and centerboard without losing boat speed and were accordingly a pre-meet favorite...