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...near dawn and La Nativité, a rickety 30-ft. wooden sailboat crammed with 63 Haitian refugees, was bobbing to ward the Florida coast near Fort Lauderdale. Winds of up to 30 m.p.h. lashed the sea, and waves as high as 5 ft. swept over the homemade vessel. Less than 60 yds. from land, La Nativité was suddenly swamped and its passengers spilled into the sea. Only when survivors, dazed and tearful, were spotted wandering the high way near the wealthy town of Hillsboro Beach did residents realize what had happened. Soon police were dragging...
...flock of ten Soviet ships, including two destroyers, waited nervously at the limit of Swedish territorial waters, twelve miles offshore, as Moscow requested the right to salvage its stranded vessel. But Swedish Prime Minister Thörbjrn Fälldin insisted that his government would do the salvaging, and only after it had held an investigation to learn why the submarine had invaded Swedish waters. Such an inquiry required the presence of Skipper Gushin, but he refused to leave his ship, even when entreated by two Soviet diplomats. The Swedes settled in for a possible siege, as Gushin awaited orders...
With 67 other refugees, Nguyen Phuong Thuy, 15, slipped out of Viet Nam in a 33-ft. boat. The craft was well into the Gulf of Thailand and the presumed zone of safety when it was attacked, not by pursuing Vietnamese but by a vessel carrying eight Thai fishermen. The pirates kidnaped Thuy and another young girl, then sank the refugees' boat with the rest of the Vietnamese still clinging to it. "I can't forget the look on my little sister Tran's face when she slipped below the water," Thuy said later. "I still...
...flip side to this is that each crew has its moment in the sun, no matter how poorly it does. The boats glide one-by-one under the packed Anderson Bridge, and throngs of enthusiastic well-wishers lend their support to each vessel. Only when the times become known a half-hour after the event ends are the winners determined. For the fans, the results often remain unknown unless they read the agate type in the next day's Globe...
...success. The yard is the only one in the U.S. that combines modular construction with extensive "pre-outfitting." That means that whole sections of ships are built as near-complete units, fitted with piping and electrical equipment. Then, with a giant crane, the sections are joined to make the vessel. The system, now used by the Swedes and Japanese, is faster and less expensive than the conventional one of building entire hulls first, then stuffing them with their innards...