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KNIFE IN THE WATER. In this sophisticated thriller from Poland, Director Roman Polanski puts two men and one woman aboard a small sloop, where he can explore human relations at his leisure -and with a surgeon's skill...
Accepting the limits of action offered by only three characters aboard one small sloop, Director Roman Polanski sends his inquisitive camera whirring from port to starboard, bow to stern, up the mast. He shoots over shoulders and behind heads, composing frame after intimate frame through which his unholy trinity inevitably reveal themselves. Every twitch of an eyelid tells a small, stinging truth. Man, woman and boy abrade one another until a climactic fight for possession of the knife abruptly exposes the very quick of character. Despising her husband, in his absence the cool young wife gives herself...
Japanese boy who recently sailed across the Pacific in a 19-ft. sloop...
Also in October, Ford became the first skipper over to win the New England Sloop Championships three years in a row, Sailing with Horn, Rock Pring. and Pete Drake in 24 foot Ravens at the Coast Guard Academy, Ford overcame a foul-out and mastered winds of over 40 knots to engineer his victory over a strong Yale contingent...
...tradition that a woman at sea is bad luck has long since sunk without a trace. Every boat seemed designed to appeal to the feminine eye for color and convenience, even in the sailboats, the last stronghold of the hornyhanded old salt. Most fetching was a 35-ft. sloop-rigged motor sailer made by that master of motorboats, Chris-Craft. With 563 sq. ft. of sail on a beamy (11 ft.) Fiberglas hull, Chris-Craft's "sail yacht" is powered by a hefty 60-h.p. engine that gives it a cruising speed of six or seven knots. In cabins...