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With her two 2,000-h.p. Wright Cyclones rumbling, she taxied out to open water, swung into the wind and poised for flight. Spindrift ripping from her slim stern, she was up on the step. Then...
...Veteran P.A.A. Test Pilot Edmund Allen could see, there was only one thing to do. Starting his motors, he ordered the stern line off, and the Clipper started across the bay. She thundered for the open Sound off Duwamish Head, cleared the water once, settled back, rose anew, spindrift spuming from her hull step, wake boiling behind. At 80 miles she skimmed from the waves, into the air. Thirty-eight minutes later Pilot Allen brought her down in Seattle's sheltered Lake Washington. Said he, pleased as Punch: "She's a great ship . . . sweet as a peach...
Captain H. E. Raabe, 73, an oldtime slave-&-ebony trader in the Solomon Islands, who once skippered a ship with Author Jack London in the crew, had set out by himself in the 40-ft. powered yawl Spindrift from Port Washington, L. I., bound for the South Sea Islands. A friend received a letter from him, describing an adventure, as follows...
Unhappily, no boat drew near Captain Raabe that night. There was nothing but howling wind and rushing water. Blinded, he was unable to light his running lights. He ran afoul something in the dark. The Spindrift began to ship water . . . not until well on in the next day, after a night of horror, did the storm abate and his sight return sufficiently to see where he was- caught in a fish trap...
...crippled Spindrift into Annapolis to be refitted, and in the conclusion of his letter gave an inkling as to the difference between himself and heroic Ahab...