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...manufacturer and importer of sailboats, George D. O'Day '45, captured honors for the United States in a 5.5, a 32-foot sloop with a 40-foot mast, whose 200-square-foot spinnaker his crew could set in 6 seconds and kill in two or three...
...loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...
...real SS(N) Nautilus and her nuclear sisters of the modern U.S. Navy need better air, and are designed to stay submerged for months on end. In Naval Research Reviews the Naval Research Laboratory tells how their little worlds are kept almost as fresh as a sloop tacking into the wind...
...platform for the giant (40 ft., 12,000 lbs.) radar antenna rotating inside the helium-filled gas bag. Its great endurance (up to 95 hours without refueling) promised ample range as it beat to seaward off the New Jersey shore one day last week in search of a racing sloop, overdue on a Bermuda-to-Long Island...
...airship nose over, and seconds later was fighting his way free into the water. Only two of his mates survived the unexplained crash with him. One crewman died after being pulled from the sea; 17 others drowned in their double-decked gondola under 15 fathoms. Later, the missing sloop was spotted by planes and a submarine. It was in no trouble...