Word: sandbar
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...have no medium of being heard." Worn out by her civic labors, last April she and her "73-year-old sea captain father" set out in a 48-ft. schooner, the Black Hawk, to sail around the world. But two months later the Black Hawk fetched up on a sandbar off Cat Island, in the Bahamas, and Skipper Joan went back to Manhattan to raise $300. With $1,000 and Count Ilya Tolstoy as a deckhand, undaunted Adventuress Lowell set off again. Said she: "Hell, yes, we're going on-rHit on around Cape Horn...
...north shore of Lake Erie lay a contorted pile of scrap iron, all that was left of the freighter M. J. Nessen. The crew, twelve men, a woman, was rescued before the ship broke up. On a sandbar nearby was lodged the steel sandsucker C. M. Caldwell. A crew of 18, gambling that she would ride the storm, stayed aboard...