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...total saving in terms of muscle power and barked knuckles is impressive. Despite its size, two people can rig the sails of the Procyon in about five minutes; normally, readying a boat this large can take half an hour for a crew of eight. Slick aerodynamic design and a hydraulically powered keel let the Procyon sail at speeds of up to 15 knots: roughly 15% faster than a conventionally designed boat of comparable size. Automatic winches furl and unfurl the Procyon's Kevlar mainsail and jib horizontally, at a finger's touch, without human assistance. The unique, sculptured boom eliminates...
...ISRAELITES HAD to cross the Red Sea. Columbus had to sail the ocean blue. And I, much less glamorously, have to muck my way through Lake Stoughton every time I take a shower...
...death by the Spanish priest Bartolome de las Casas. Las Casas, who wrote voluminously on the Spanish colonization of the New World, was not a mariner, and his version is filled with errors that have caused endless dispute over such basic matters as Columbus' course on his historic sail and where his little fleet made landfall. Candidates for this honor include San Salvador, Grand Turk, East Caicos, Semana Cay, Conception Island and half a dozen others. In these, as in a myriad other matters, we still don't know enough about Columbus and never will...
Like a seasoned skipper taking over a venerable tall ship, he's going about his business in seamanlike fashion. He's tightening sail here, testing rigging there, replacing this belaying that, preparing for a voyage that will test both crew and hull in the tempest...
...with Israel. Over and above those considerations, Israel would strengthen rather than damage its alliance with the U.S., where impatience with its obstructionism has often run high. Israel's request for a $10 billion loan guarantee to resettle immigrants from the Soviet Union and Ethiopia would be certain to sail through Congress...