Word: weathers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Swap technology on transportation. Some obvious topics: Soviet experience in cold-weather railroad operation and new underground mass transit systems; U.S. expertise in highway engineering and cargo containerization...
...least of the observations are those related to the terrestrial environment, involving the sun's influence on the earth's atmosphere, weather and magnetic field...
...market with big, beamy cruising boats. Their advertising copy suggests that what every cruising man wants-and needs -is all the comforts of a small apartment crammed into a fiber-glass hull. But for all the contemporary gadgetry-the refrigerators, the hot-and-cold running water systems, the all-weather carpeting-the lines of the new boats are really close copies of the sturdy old designs in the color pictures opposite...
...shuns complex modern gear that he cannot service himself. He can work with rope or wire or canvas, and the sailmaker's "palm" sits comfortably in his hand. His compass and sextant are instruments to be treated with care and reverence. He can read the tides and the weather, and he knows the movements of the navigator's stars. His library is charts and pilot manuals. His bible is the American Practical Navigator by Nathaniel Bowditch, a one-volume encyclopedia of seagoing wisdom that was first published in 1802 and remains a remarkably complete collection of everything...
...Colvin himself is one of that cruising minority. Gazelle was not built for a client; she was built for the Col vin family, and she has taken them more than 10,000 miles in every weather. Her Chinese rig is the product of years of research and practical trial. For an experienced sailor like Colvin, who first went to sea at 14 on a three-masted schooner, the steel hull with its full-battened sails represents just about the ultimate in versatility, strength and simplicity...