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...Capetown when her fresh-water tanks sprang a leak and ran dry. Forced to live on a trickle of water distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into the frigid ocean...
When the race began, it shaped up as a battle between two big, custom-built racing machines, the 74-ft. ketch Pen Duick VI from France and the 72-ft. ketch Great Britain II. Both are captained by veteran sailors. Pen Duick Skipper Eric Tabarly won a singlehanded transatlantic race in 1964; Great Britain II's captain, Chay Blyth, made a solo circumnavigation three years...
...took over Finley's Kansas City Athletics in 1966 and broke with Charles in 1968, whereupon he flew to the Indians. Alvin never got along that well with management, and GM Gabe Paul ousted him in 1970. He reminds me a lot of Hank Bauer, the crusty if effective skipper...
...Reputable Barrister. The guns were bad-captured Russian Krukas, the worst in Europe-and so was the navigator of the freighter transporting them. Missing his rendezvous off Tralee and surrounded by the Royal Navy, the skipper scuttled his ship, arms and all. Casement, who had been landed from a German U-boat, was ignominiously arrested by a local constable...
...record of sorts: for the first time in history U.S. and Soviet crews were in space at the same time. About 100 miles higher than the smaller Russian ship, Skylab's three astronauts were beginning their second month of a scheduled 84-day flight. Radioed Skylab's skipper, Gerald Carr...