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...Chichester once said about his penchant for solo performances. "Any attempt to diverge from this lot makes me half a person." Whether he was roaming the English countryside as a boy, piloting a seaplane from Australia to Japan as a young man, or crossing the Atlantic in a small sloop in middle age. Chichester always faced danger alone. Though he has never escaped fear ("A spot of panic is good for you, keeps you alive"), Chichester has loved the rewards of mastering...
Harvard's strongest sailing team in recent years tied for third in the New England Sloop Championships last weekend at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. Dartmouth led the seven finalists with 44 points, followed by Tufts, 41, and Harvard and M.I.T. each...
...young King of Greece was regaling his friends with his version of an encounter at sea. It seems the sky was clear and the wind low enough so that the officer on the deck of the U.S. carrier Saratoga was able to hail the youthful skipper of the sloop Proteus without a megaphone...
...secret dream. In 1958 he paid $160 for a sailing hull rotted by age and neglect. Repaired, refitted and baptized on fresh-water shakedown cruises, Tinkerbelle slipped her moorings at Falmouth, Mass., on June 1, 1965. Seventy-eight days and 3,200 miles later, the 13½-ft. sloop touched shore in Falmouth, England, the smallest sailing craft ever known to have crossed the Atlantic...
...Spain's south coast last Jan. 17 remembered seeing "another parachute with half a man" fall into the sea after a nuclearladen B-52 had collided with a jet tanker. The "half a man" was a 20-megaton H-bomb, and luckily the skipper of one fishing sloop was sure he knew the exact spot where the bomb fell-five miles off the coast near Palomares. Other sea going Spanish witnesses were equally sure the site was elsewhere, but the U.S. Navy routinely put down a marker buoy just the same...