Word: staghounds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...blockaded Santiago (pop. 200.000), the rebels dare not take on the 3,000-man garrison commanded by Major General Eulogio Cantillo. the army's best tactician. They also fall back before the Staghound armored cars that rumble out of Santiago-but close in again like wraiths when the Staghounds rumble back...
Then, out of nowhere came the 39-ft. ketch Staghound. She had been unreported and counted out of the running for days. But race officials had forgotten that in 1953, when she won the race, Stag-hound's owner and skipper, Los Angeles' Ira P. Fulmor, kept radio silence as he searched for favorable winds. Now Fulmor and his navigator, Robert T. Leary, were pulling the same stunt. When they broke silence they were less than 200 miles off Diamond Head, with more than enough of their 98-hour handicap left to take top honors. The times were...
...craft you please, fill her up with liquor and see-gars; you gets your friends on board and have a good time-and that's a yacht." *Although, this week, on corrected time, the winner in the 32-boat fleet appeared to be the small (39 ft.) ketch Staghound. *Until the 1850s, both British and U.S. racing yachts were typically constructed on a "cod's head and mackerel tail" plan, i.e., full bow, lean, clean afterbody. The America, designed in 1851, reversed the plan with a sharp prow and filled-out afterbody, became the prototype of modern racers...
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