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...hardy, 42-foot craft with two Chrysler engines, built to Hemingway's specifications 20 years ago. Hemingway carefully supervises the provisioning of the Pilar's iceboxes for a hot day afloat-several brands of beer for his guest and the mate, some chilled tequila for Skipper Hemingway. He consults with his mate, an agile, creased Canary Islander named Gregorio Fuentes. Then Hemingway shucks off his shoes and socks, chins himself on the edge of the Pilar's flying bridge, throws one leg up, and, favoring his sore back, slowly raises himself to the roof to take...
...division boat Langworthy was the skipper, while Williams assisted him. This combination gained a third out of the 11 A competition entries. Townsend, with a crew from Ohio State, was the high point skipper in the B division...
...Even Italy's own spruce Bersaglieri and their commander, General Edmondo de Renzi, were buffeted and disheveled by the warmth of their welcome. General Winterton decided not to wait around for a proper transfer of authority, sent his regrets and sailed away, amid taunts. The Centaur's skipper explained later that he could not delay putting to sea because of the weather...
This discovery was no surprise to Bruce C. Heezen of Lament Geological Observatory, the Vema's scientific skipper. Two years ago, the Vema found another canyon south of Greenland, which it traced north and south for 1,200 miles on the bottom of the Atlantic. Heezen believes that there must be many such gorges and that they are the channels of mud rivers that formed the level plain on the ocean floor...
...sympathy from the Somers' Queeg-like skipper. Commander Alexander Slidell Mackenzie, U.S.N., 39, was vain and self-righteous; in 26 years at sea he had developed a fondness for quarterdeck sermons and main-deck floggings. He was aroused by the slightest threat to his position, and he soon hated Midshipman Spencer. As the cruise wore on, Spencer remained moodily aloof from his fellow middies, plied his cronies, Boatswain's Mate Sam Cromwell and Seaman Elisha Small, with illicit brandy and cigars. Soon Spencer was poring over charts of the West Indies, boasting wildly that he would take over...