Word: skippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pleon Yacht Club in Marblehead, where a high-powered sailing program for juniors has developed a string of good sailors. Among Robbie's early adversaries were Tim Bernard, who finished third at the 1970 North American Single-handeds, and Steve Milligan, now M. I. T.'s top skipper...
...cockpit, he introduced some of the most sophisticated electronic gear ever carried on a sailboat, including a tape device that plots the boat's course as well as a small computer that tells Skipper Bill Ficker his true speed toward the mark (as opposed to speed through the water). Below the waterline, Chance installed a smaller keel and restyled the stern with a V-shaped bustle. Result: a remarkable 18% increase in Intrepid 's theoretical speed...
...Frank Packer and Designer Alan Payne had been the 1962 challengers and, though they lost, Gretel I did win a race from the Americans. This time they were on hand with an obviously much improved Gretel II and a crew of towering hearties headed by Veteran Blue-water Skipper James Hardy...
Though they agree on all their major conclusions, Bucher and Armbrister confront Pueblo's story from different perspectives. Bucher views events through two narrow apertures: his own experience as a thoroughly conventional officer, and his status as the new skipper of a small, unimportant ship. Armbrister, who traveled and interviewed widely on the Pueblo story, provides a less intimate but much broader account...
...incendiary substance, was both dangerous and contrary to Navy regulations. He could have made a fuss but decided against doing so. "All I could accomplish by pressing it further," he writes as apologia, "was to upset Admiral Johnson and his staff by giving them the impression they had a skipper on their hands who seemed obsessed with the capability to blow up his own ship...