Word: sloops
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...Cairo bureau, one member has planned an expedition up the Nile in his 15-ft. sloop, another is looking forward to a honeymoon in the Lebanese mountains. Gamal Kodsi has postponed his vacation until winter in the hope of accompanying Egypt's Olympic team to the 1948 Olympic Games in London. Researcher Violet Price, who has scheduled a cruise among the Balearic Islands in a 55-ton ketch, adds this idyllic note: "If times were right and we could choose the ideal vacation for this part of the world, the vote would go for a lazy cruise through...
...auxiliary sloop Linda was short and squat and broad of beam, and neither spic nor span as she cut a bow wave through Miami's gilt-edged Biscayne Bay last week. Nonetheless, she was a proud ship. She had borne 18 Estonians, storm-tossed on the dirty seas of Europe's politics, across an equally turbulent ocean to haven in a free land. There was a not-so-proud moment when the Linda ran aground off Quarantine, and hung there high & dry until the tide refloated her. Soon she was tied up in a nest with two sister...
...enterprise, sent an airborne reporter circling over the fleet ("first air coverage of such an event"). He saw a fleet of sails fanned out, with 70 miles of smooth water between the leader and the tailender. The backwash of a baby hurricane just missed the racers. Even so, one sloop's topmast was sprung...
...going and got all possible good out of her big Genoa jib. She got to Bermuda first (in 5 days, 3 minutes) but didn't win. By the time all the intricate mathematics of handicaps had been worked out, the prize went to the blue-hulled, 57-ft. sloop Gesture, carrying the first suit of nylon sails ever used in a big ocean race. Gesture had been the third to finish. Her skipper: square-jawed Howard Fuller, president of the Fuller Brush Co. He had won the slowest Bermuda race since the first race 40 years...
...battle line along the harbor wall, defied the British. At Castle Barracks, where besieging British troops fought barricaded Indians, the mutineers turned their artillery on the Bombay Yacht Club (the very symbol of British racial supremacy), where no Indian may enter. At Karachi, Indian naval ratings seized the sloop Hindustan, dueled with British batteries along the waterfront for 25 minutes before running up the white flag...