Word: starboard
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather. He wins most in light airs. It is his system to keep moving at all costs, away from the mark if necessary, while his opponents stand still with their bows pointed in the right direction. Like many another yachtsman, he thinks he sails better on the starboard tack, possibly because he finds it more comfortable to hold the gunwale with his right hand while his left is on the tiller. Even-tempered, meticulous, laconic, Skipper Iselin dresses for sailing in a dilapidated Panama hat, corduroy trousers, bow tie. In 20 years of yachting on Long Island Sound, his friend...
...Captain's Dinner, all the lights went out. Passengers rushed from the plush-&-gold lounges into a cold drizzle on deck. The crew was piped to stations while excited junior officers pattered up and down staircases, gesticulating. The engines stopped. Then slowly the ship heeled over to starboard. A few passengers went down for their lifebelts...
...Wood shot ahead, in an uproar of cheers and boat whistles. Miss England III, her engines sputtering now, slowed down miserably to 49.661 m. p. h. in the fifth lap, crossed the finish two miles behind Miss America X, She had a broken throttle at the carburetor on her starboard motor, a break in the overflow pipe for water circulation that shot water into the boat instead of over the side, caused Kaye Don to wonder if he had sprung a leak...
Magnetic Declination, Azimuth. The squall struck the ship like a rock; she heeled over on her beam ends. "All hands to starboard!" bawled the officer on watch. It was too late. In 30 seconds the Niobe had capsized and sunk...
...week aboard the U. S. S. Akron while she cruised over the sea. In the morning, off Barnegat, N. J. he decided it was time for him to start for his office in Washington. Up from the control car he climbed into the envelope, then walked aft along the starboard catwalk through the wardroom to the galley. A turn to the right and he was stepping perilously above the Akron's cavernous plane hangar where hung a spidery little plane on a flat hook atop the centre of its wing, threaded through the bottom rung of a metal trapeze...