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Unbeknownst to anybody, Skipper Long had steered Ondine 250 miles out to sea-maintaining radio silence. "We steered more for speed than for course," he said, "even if it took us farther out." In midocean, Ondine met no frustrating countercurrents and got the benefit of fresh winds. Day after day, she boomed along at a fantastic average speed of 7½ knots. Grim and tense, Long took at least ten sightings a day, sent deck hands scurrying to change sails as often as every 20 minutes...
...Skipper Long grudgingly admitted to a "certain elation" as Ondine's time was logged at 221 hrs. 52 min. and she was assured the coveted blue ribbon that goes to the first boat to finish. Two days later, when officials finally finished calculating the complicated handicap formula, Ondine had also won a fancy silver trophy for being the fastest on corrected time...
Soon they were picked up by a Philippine merchant ship. He was sitting on the fantail of the ship when the enemy planes reappeared and began a bombing run. "Don't worry!" called the Philippine skipper. "They've been doing that all day long. They can't hit anything!" Replied Moorer: "We're not worried-yet!" But a direct hit changed his mind, and Moorer and his crew jumped overboard. Minutes later the merchant ship sank. Four men were killed, including one of Moorer's own men, but the 40 survivors rowed to a small...
...there is no such creature as the man who has every thing. He may think he has - between boat shows. But when January rolls around and coliseums fill up with new craft and a thousand gadgets that have suddenly become sine qua non for sea farers, the amateur skipper realizes that his year-old, 40-ft. dreamboat is just a floating slum. Does Cap'n Jones have a Gentex contour-molded life jacket, guaranteed to turn the wearer face up in the water even if he is stunned or unconscious? A speedometer accurate to one one-hundredth...
...Mark-46, equipped with dummy instead of high-explosive warheads, sought out and struck highly maneuverable nuclear submarines with unerring accuracy. One especially determined Mark-46 survived its initial collision and proceeded to slam again and again into the target sub. To escape damage to his boat, the skipper swiftly surfaced; the Mark-46 is prevented by its programming from returning to shallow depths, where it might turn upon and destroy the ship that fired...