Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...back with enough oil from one cruise to retire for life. But there is also the story of the skipper who spent two years at sea and returned to tell his owners: "We didn't get a single goddam barrel of oil, but we had a goddam fine sail." For the average crewman the money rewards were trifling. All he could look forward to with certainty was maggoty food, cramped and filthy quarters, brutal whippings if he complained, and, since casualties were high, a good chance that he would get sea burial. Officers who died were sometimes kept aboard...
Strohmeier, Bethlehem Steelman and member of the New Bedford, Mass. Yacht Club, "by following two simple rules: when in doubt go to westward, otherwise sail on the tack that will take you straight to Bermuda." Malay began by standing off on the port tack until she was nearly 45 miles west of the rhumb line, a straight-line course to St. David's Head. For a day she drifted in the Gulf Stream, while the crew fished and swam. Out of the stream, Malay worked westward again before she came about on the starboard tack for the last long...
From sun-beaten ports in the Gulf Coast a monstrous, ungainly fleet is putting out to sea on a dramatic mission. It is the "navy" of the offshore oilmen, and never did stranger ships sail on more venturesome voyages. Some of the craft bristle with giant cranes; others grow forests of steel columns as tall as Douglas firs. All of them clank and roar with violent machinery. Alongside conventional ships built for more seemly duty, they look as clumsy as cassowaries splashing in a lake of swans...
...jacket type but set up by much larger and more stable barges) will always be used for permanent offshore oilfield structures. But drilling in up to at least 200 feet of water will probably be done from mobile platforms. When the well is finished, the platform will sail away, leaving only a few piles to protect the top of the well casing...
...short-term bill whooped through, 281 to 53. Prospects were that it would sail through the Senate too, where Democrats-including Gore-seemed content to rest on their propaganda victory...