Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Beeps for the Deeps. For sailboat skippers, the biggest eye-catcher was Luders Marine Construction Co.'s racy 40-ft. sloop, made from molded mahogany plywood, the biggest molded plywood hull yet made. Price: $38,500. For cruising yachtsmen, both power and sail, the electronics industry had some new gadgets. Both RCA and Raytheon displayed new lightweight radar and sonar sets that could search out schools of fish as well as tell the precise depth of the water. Bendix even has a radar set for close-in navigating that shows objects as near...
...engineer (University of Wisconsin, '23), Parker took a succession of jobs for gas producers, in 1943 began trotting the globe for Standard of N.J. In 1950 he went to London as an Esso Export vice president. He came back last year, bringing with him a 40-ft. Dutch sloop that he sails on Long Island Sound with his three sons...
...Orleans, Gene Walet III, 19, and improving with age, calmly sailed his 19-foot Lightning sloop to two firsts and three seconds in eight races, defeated Long Island's William S. Cox, 50½ to 45½, to take the Mallory Cup and the North American Sailing championship for the second year running (TIME...
...June 1815, the British brigantine Nautilus surrendered to the American sloop-of-war Peacock after a battle in the Sunda Strait. In the days of relatively unsinkable wooden ships, captures were frequent. Perhaps the most remarkable of such achievements was that of French hussars who discovered a Dutch fleet helplessly frozen in at Texel in January 1795, and captured it by a cavalry charge across...
...sleek little (39 ft.) yawl Malay had finished the Newport-Bermuda race, "the thrash to the onion patch," the night before. Now she edged through Two Rock Passage into Hamilton Harbor. A small sloop drew abeam, and the Malay's skipper called across the stretch of water: "Who won the race?" The small-boat sailors slid past the yawl's counter and read the name on the stern. Their astonished answer drifted back: "Malay...