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...welding products. Singlehanded sailing is not new. Britain's Sunday newspaper the Observer used to sponsor a contest called OSTAR, the Observer Singlehanded Transatlantic Race; solo sailors have crossed both the Atlantic and the Pacific in boats as small as 10 ft. Others, including Britain's redoubtable Sir Francis Chichester, have raced around the world from England and back. But the BOC Challenge is the first singlehanded around-the-world race to begin and end in the U.S., and in the same port that hosts the America's Cup Race...
...sailors seem up to their challenge. Desmond Hampton, 41, a handsome London real estate broker, has chartered the 56-ft. ketch Gipsy Moth V from the family of the late Sir Francis Chichester. Hampton's only companion will be a tiny stuffed koala bear presented to him for good luck by his daughter. Guy Bernardin, 37, a French business executive who will skipper the 38-ft. Ratso II, accepts the loneliness of the long-distance sailor. "For a race such as this," he says, "you must clear out all the responsibilities in your life. Anything can happen. You must...
...average annual haul was 1,571 metric tons (a metric ton is 2,205 lbs.), but in the five years ending in 1981, it fell to 1,184 metric tons. In Scotland, where laws concerning salmon fishing date from 1030, the decline is viewed as a national affront. Says Sir Andrew Gilchrist, former chairman of the Highlands and Islands Development Board: "The culmination of increasingly bad years is reducing the attraction of salmon fishing in Scotland to almost negligible proportions." Canada, Norway and the Republic of Ireland have also seen their salmon harvest fall in the past decade...
...added, "Nobody is going to preach to us humanitarianism." As for the problem of getting the P.L.O. to leave Beirut, he vowed: "If they do not go, well, we shall have to solve that problem. The P.L.O. will not stay in Beirut or Lebanon. No sir. Out of the question...
Croupier (handing money to Renault): Your winnings, sir. Renault (briskly): Oh. Thank you very much...