Word: sailings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rhumb-line distance to Bermuda is 635 miles, but since no sailing boat can sail the rhumb line exactly, the handicapping distance was 675. Finisterre took a starboard tack off Newport with a 163° compass course. In late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole...
...Zealand gave Adrian Hayter a lingering dislike for the sights and sounds and smells of ranching, and a long-lingering love for the sea. All through his later career as a British army officer in India and Malaya, he nourished a youthful dream that someday he would sail home in his own boat. When he re tired in England seven years ago, Major Hayter, then 34, put all his savings into a sturdy nine-ton yawl, Sheila 11, took a course in deep-sea navigation and got ready for the long voyage home...
...written under the name of "Bamba Appassionata" (Passionate Doll). Somehow Wanda gets thrown into proximity with a secretary who advises her that "To dream is to live!", and then a moving van, and then many pseudo-Arabs and neo-Moorish hordes, and, finally, the White Sheik's own secluded sail boat. In her semi-conscious wake her distressed husband similarly encounters many adventures including the shower she had left running in making her get-away, an irate concierage, imperturbable relatives, and an Italian galloping trombone band. In an air of intensified pseudo-coherence the couple reunites and, to the tone...
...Symphony conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor). A rustic but often appealing suite composed in Mozart's most sophisticated period, designed to illustrate some of the musical pitfalls he so consistently avoided. Many of them are too subtle for untrained ears, but when two French horns sail into a strange key and bump unceremoniously, it is quite clear their music has been incorrectly transposed. Just what pitfalls Mozart had in mind for the brief but cacophonous end is not clear-perhaps all of them blended into...
John Deknatel, and Thomas Townsend will sail Monotype or Finn Class boats in a preliminary Olympic Trial at M.I.T. on Saturday. The 14 leading skippers will be invited to join nine other men, picked on their past records in the final New England trial on April 7 and 8 in Marion, Mass. The sailors will race single-handed in M.I.T. dinghies...