Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Brazilian and U.S. officials insisted that the visit was social; Figueiredo declined to say whether his ships might ever sail for Pacific waters. But a deal was in the works, possibly under the Military Assistance Program, to take a couple of U.S. cruisers out of mothballs and turn them over to the Brazilians for a bargain $8,000,000 price. If the Brazilians could man the ships (now reportedly awaiting recall to active service at the Philadelphia Navy Yard) and learn to handle them quickly, there was a chance that U.S. and Brazilian sailors might go to sea again...
...sailors watching the crazy craft under construction at Callao thought the six Scandinavians must be mad. The crude raft was made of balsa logs, the longest 45 ft. long, hauled from the Ecuadorian jungles and lashed together with ropes. A crude steering oar swung astern; a big, archaic square sail drooped drunkenly from the mast, and the cabin aft was a bamboo hut thatched with banana leaves...
Although NSA finally sent more than 800 students to Europe on its low cost tours, it ran into trouble early when the S. S. Svalbard, slated to carry 600 waiting students to Europe, was declared "unsafe" and was forbidden to sail by the U.S. Coast Guard...
...first of the finals, her boat began heeling over in the wind. Shouting orders to her crew, Toni set the tiller carefully, shrewdly tacked upwind around the other boats and forged ahead. Toni's tactical philosophy: "The wind that comes off another boat's sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat Bay Yacht Club...
Toni has been sailing ever since her father, Arnold E. Monetti, Manhassat Bay's commodore, bought an Atlantic class (30-ft.) sloop nine years ago. Nobody taught her to sail: "I just learned how by doing it." A ninth-grader, Toni hopes to become an artist because "you can't make a living out of sailing." But, like most of her fellow midgets, she fully intends to keep on racing, too. When she reaches 18, Toni will sail in women's class events; the women's champion of the Sound is feted each year with...