Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have suddently realized that we are all passengers together on a ship called earth," he said. "And the essential thing about being on a ship is that we either sink or sail together...
...yacht Great Britain II was a week's sail from Capetown when her fresh-water tanks sprang a leak and ran dry. Forced to live on a trickle of water distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into...
After the last anchor chain has rattled through the hawsepipe in Portsmouth, a question will remain: What has it all proved? That man can sail round the globe has been known since Magellan's time, and that he can do it solo, since Slocum's. The boats now competing cost a fortune, and the race has cost three lives. Having exacted entry fees of .?150, Whitbread has at least shown that it can get an ocean of publicity for a pannikin of small change...
...Because the boats vary in design and size and therefore in potential speed, the winner will be the boat with the best corrected rather than elapsed time. Corrected time is computed on a handicap basis, taking into account such factors as the boat's waterline length and sail area...
...forced the limousine taking 3-year-old Jon home from school to the curb, then flashed bulbs into his terrified face. It was only a month after Anne had taken an apartment in New York. But Lindbergh abruptly decided they must quit America for England. As the family set sail, Anne wrote in the diary: "All my life seems to be trying to 'get settled' and C. shaking me out of it. But you like...