Word: skiffs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...beach. But, as with most sequels, this second outing of a boy and his dolphin fails to improve on the flippertygibbet fun of the original. When Sandy (Luke Halpin) learns that Flipper is going to be taken away from him, both head for the open sea. Sandy's skiff konks out near an island paradise where he meets the wife and daughters of Sir Halsey Hopewell, held prisoner aboard his yacht by three escaped murderers...
...bonefish at night with miners' head lamps. In Bermuda, they wade out to deeper water where the bonefish hopefully feels more secure-but that risks a dunking, and the shrewd Bermudian floats himself out in Junior's inner tube. The best way is in a flat-bottomed skiff with an expert guide like Florida's George Hommel to spot the fish and patiently explain the technique. "You cast ahead of the fish, in the direction he's moving," says Hommel. "You try to get six to ten feet in front of him. In the grass flats...
...floor, Jon Lindbergh, 31, deep-sea-diver son of Air Hero Charles Lindbergh, stripped off his gear, dived in and swam 100 yds. to the crash. Working under water, Lindbergh swiftly cut the injured man free from the wreckage. But the odds were against him. By the time a skiff got the man back to the barge, he was dead. Said Lindbergh: "A man doesn't have much time in the water...
Rigid Security. The design for the Australian challenger came from the board of Alan Newbury Payne, 40, a maverick Sydney naval architect whose failures (an overrigged 12-ft. skiff, a 35-ft. cutter that wallowed badly when winds dipped below 25 knots) just about balance out his successes. To turn out the first 12-meter yacht ever built Down Under, Payne shrugged off recurring hepatitis, worked 60 hours a week for two years under such rigid security that outsiders still do not know the boat's full specifications. But her 30-ton weight matches that of such...
...real: "He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long gone pride and he put it against the fish's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side, his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff, and started to pass the boat, long, deep, wide, silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water.... Then the fish came alive, with all his death in him, and rose high out of the water showing all his great length and width and all his power...