Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard sailing team sets sail, as it were, for New Haven tomorrow to defend its Big Three championship. Chances of the Arthur Knapp trophy being aboard the Crimson ship when it returns to Cambridge are slim, however...
...Houston-some of the best small-boat sailors in the world. Two were former world champions, four were Olympic gold medalists, five had won the Scandinavian Gold Cup. For seven days, on the wind-lashed waters of Long Island Sound, they battled for the world's 5.5-meter sailing championship. And when the contest ended last week, they sadly packed their sail bags and left the championship to C. Raymond Hunt, 55, a bespectacled grandfather from Tilton, N.H., who had never before sailed a 5.5-meter in international competition...
...Speed. Like a Grand Prix car, a 5.5-meter sailboat is a specialized piece of handiwork, designed for speed, not for family fun. The 5.5s range from 28 ft. to 35 ft. in length, must conform to a complicated formula that requires each "plus" (larger sail area) to be balanced by a "minus" (heavier weight). Built in the U.S., a 5.5-meter hull costs about $15,000; designer's fees, tank tests and sails boost the bill another $5,000 or more. Running before the wind, under an 800-sq.-ft. spinnaker, a 5.5-meter can skim along...
Broken Leg. The Dillingham empire began when New England-born Benjamin Franklin Dillingham, first officer on a schooner, broke his leg in a fall from a horse while visiting Hawaii in 1865-and watched his ship sail away without him. Making the best of things, he married a missionary's daughter, bought a hardware store and gradually expanded his holdings into lands, crops, herds and a highly profitable railroad. Son Walter expanded the empire further with Hawaiian Dredging and Construction, the cornerstone of the corporation today. The Dillinghams helped build U.S. Pacific airstrips before and during World...
...winter they buy Royal Crown Derby," says a Virgin Islands china-shop owner. "In the summer, it's Heinrich." Social directors sometimes grouse that the summer people are unschooled in resort life. "They don't play golf or tennis," complains one Bermuda hotelman. "They don't sail, water ski, swim or skindive. They're spectators, TV watchers and sunbathers. You have to show them how to have...