Word: skippering
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...clearly on TV screens that sunlight could be seen glinting off its winglike solar panels. Then came the slight bump as the two ships, now somewhere over the North Atlantic, made contact. "We have succeeded!" Apollo Commander Tom Stafford exulted in awkward Russian. Replying in English, Soyuz's skipper Aleksei Leonov exclaimed, "Soyuz and Apollo are shaking hands. Good show...
...idle week cruising the blue Caribbean was once an adventure only for the rich or the very gregarious. One could buy a boat, or charter one with skipper and crew, which could run into thousands of dollars a week, or share space on a "headboat" with a dozen strangers. But in recent years a new way of vacation cruising has taken on, and it promises to do to crewed charters what Hertz did to chauffeured cars. This is bareboating -hiring a yacht without crew and sailing it yourself. In 1966 only two dozen bareboats were working in the entire Caribbean...
...Vincent. As the islands slide by, embedded in their wrinkled sheet of sapphire, you run over your limited skills and lubberly sailing experience and watch your confidence begin to ebb. Bareboating is a cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck...
...equally sophisticated devices, but few offer equal versatility and most require far more power. The Oxy has integrated all its equipment so that a surprising complexity of information appears on a control panel that would not be out of place in the cockpit of a 747. Almost everything the skipper needs to know-from the depth of the water under his keel to the wind speed and direction at the masthead-will be available at a glance...
Another of the firm's innovations will add speed and accuracy to a deep-water sailor's celestial navigation. Taking sextant sights on sun, moon or stars from the pitching deck of a small craft is difficult under the best of circumstances. Most skippers turn to a crew member to note the precise time of their measurements, and such teamwork allows ample room for error. With no one to note the time for his sights, Oxy's skipper will rely on a specially designed quartz chronometer built into the handle of his sextant...