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...across his cream-colored shirt. Belgium and the motorboat were fast disappearing in the gloaming to windward. As Holland's Walcheren Island coasted by, van der Straeten noticed a steamer below. He valved gas out of the bag above his head, came down low and shouted, "Help!" A sailor on the deck of the steamer looked up. "What?" he cried, but the wind had carried Joseph's ghostly globe far off. "The sun was sinking," remembers Joseph. "I expected the worst, but I had no fear. Mostly I was just wishing I wasn't there...
Lusty Poet Robert Burns stood posthumously revealed as a pillar of unexpected propriety." In a holograph letter sold at a London auction last week, Bobby told an author friend that he had once lent a sailor a copy of his book. The book, said the poet, had so affected the sailor that instead of seducing a girl friend, he had married...
...white Arlington amphitheater, riffling the rows of flags. At 11 o'clock a can non thudded out the first salvo of the slow, rolling 19-gun salute and a flag-draped caisson moved slowly up from the Arlington gate, bearing the first U.S. Secretary of Defense to a sailor's grave...
Skippering dinghies is quite a different chore from sailing bigger boats. Even the most experienced sloop sailor must learn the knack of getting the most out of a dinghy. Weighing little over 100 pounds dinghies are extremely sensi-tive and touchy, and one can't relax for an instant...
There are no such expressions as a "fast boat' 'and a "slow boat." All dinghios in a particular class are identical in construction, and, consequently, racing laurols go to the real sailor and not to the man who has simply the advantage of a good boat. Many regattas are now run on a round-robin basis, whereby the same skipper never gets the chance to race twice in the same boat...