Word: sailboating
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...soon. "This three-year odyssey has exorcised my wanderlust with a vengeance," said Fiennes. "I have had more than enough." The Transglobe's return to England capped a weekend marked by maritime achievement. Bill Dunlop, 41, a former truck driver from Maine, sailed his 9-ft. ⅞-in. sailboat, Wind's Will, into Falmouth after a 78-day voyage across the Atlantic. Dunlop broke a record set only two weeks before for an Atlantic crossing in the smallest boat. Ashby Harper, 65, an Albuquerque headmaster, became the oldest person to swim the English Channel. "I think my swim...
...proportion with his furnishings. Most of these hang on the walls: a chain of beads, a pair of sunglasses, snapshots of his three children. He has copied William Ernest Henley's poem "Invictus" by hand and mounted it with cellophane tape. There is a picture postcard of a sailboat at sunset below what Sy calls his "mind stimulators," words of advice on how best to study: SURVEY, QUESTION, READ, REVIEW, RECITE. Between the postcard and the sunglasses lies a poetic formula: "You imagine what you desire/ You will what you imagine/ You create what you will...
...pocket money, and by his late teens his father charged him rent during summer vacations. For Ted's graduation from his second military academy, the McCallie School in Chattanooga, Tenn., Ed Turner offered an enticing but booby-trapped present: a share of the cost of a Lightning-class sailboat. The rest was to come from Ted's savings, and would, his father knew, take virtually every cent...
...within stories, objets trouvés (newspaper clippings) and many, many footnotes. In other words, Earth is up to a lot of his old tricks. His performance this time begins with the end of a nine-month Caribbean sea journey by Susan and Fenwick. They have steered their cruising sailboat back to its starting point in Chesapeake Bay. thus describing "the closing of the circle." Now what? They have failed to make certain decisions while at sea. Should Susan have a baby or accept a tenured position at Swarthmore? Fenwick has a similar problem. A former employee...
...part airplane, part motorcycle, part sailboat, and looks like a lawn chair being chased through the sky by a beach umbrella...