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...Crimson fell behind by ten and seven points, respectively, to the Quakers and the Tigers, after first half doldrums. In both instances, Sanders's squadron set sail from their locker room session to catch up midway through the final half, only to sink back into passive oblivion. Finally, the spoilers struck. Penn's 6 ft. 8 in. sophomore John Engels and Princeton's Joe Vavricka went wild to pirate the game away...
...text to explain that in the Olympic year of 1972 some 65 of the world's largest windjammers closed a series of races by parading into the harbor of Kiel, West Germany. The book ends with a catalogue of boats that took part-square-riggers with skyscrapers of sail, brigantines, Dutch gaff cutters, topsail schooners. In between there is nothing but glorious pictures of tall ships, webbed traceries of cordage, acre upon acre of canvas, panoramas showing the vast fleet dotting troubled waters, symmetrical silhouettes of crews aloft on yardarms, looking like Chinese gymnasts, bringing in sail. The same...
...CRAFT OF SAIL by Jan Adkins. 64 pages. Walker. $5.95. A few years back, Jan Adkins drew and wrote a book called The Art and Industry ofSandcas-tles, which cleverly combined designs for toddlers on the beach with a short history of fortification for older brothers and parents. This time, with pen, ink and wash pictures and accompanying text, he has produced a handsome small primer on sailing that is also a model of brevity, clarity and simplicity. Starting with the Bernoulli effect (which explains how sailboats move to windward), the book ends with anchoring, having passed through everything from...
After nine days they had to abandon the raft and squeeze aboard Lucette's 9-ft. fiber-glass dinghy. Using a makeshift sail and guided by stars, the dangerously overloaded craft headed north across the equator, where Robertson hoped to intercept the shipping lanes to Panama...
...long instrumental sections that work so well in concert don't all come off--"You Need a Man" gets downright boring. And Messina sings more in this than he did in either of their first two albums. On the whole, though, Full Sail looks and sounds incredibly like their previous work. The same two handsome faces smile on the cover; inside, the songs are comfortably familiar. Listening casually, you may not remember which record you are playing...