Word: windwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...major breakthrough" in hull design. Built at a cost of $500,000, the Dame has a radical rudder (broad at the top, tapering sharply at the foot) and a 92-ft. aluminum mast that is built in sections for extra flexibility-to keep the mainsail flatter while beating to windward. She also has Jock Sturrock at the helm. In unofficial competition with Gretel, Dame Pattie has been spectacular. Last week Skipper Sturrock spotted Gretel a full minute, was ahead by 6 min. 45 sec. after 15 miles...
About midnight, five hours after his ad-libbed tribute to Valerie, Chuck Percy wearily returned to his $230,000, three-acre estate, Windward, on the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago's elegant suburb of Kenilworth. Valerie was in her bedroom watching television. She had decided earlier that day not to attend a "Dance-for-Percy" party on the North Shore; she dined at home with two young men who were working for the campaign, and retired shortly after 10 p.m. Her twin sister Sharon was in another room. Another of Percy's daughters, Gail, 13, was asleep...
...With a quick start, McNamara put a boat between himself and Cox at the first mark. "We've lost it," thought Cox. Not quite. Slightly misjudging the tide and wind on his starboard side, McNamara headed straight for the second mark-giving Cox, who had shrewdly angled to windward to blanket McNamara's sails, the chance to skim first around the buoy. Frantically trying to make up lost ground, McNamara and his crew then did the incredible once again. The spinnaker was billowing; then as they jibed, flutter, flutter, there it was, snarled around the headstay. This time...
...better listen to this boat drill," Captain Otto Thoresen cautioned passengers. "Next time it might be the real thing." As the 30-minute no-nonsense safety demonstration proceeded, the Viking Princess steamed out of Miami on a seven-day pleasure cruise. Last week, in the Windward Passage between Cuba and Haiti, the cruise was nearing its end when the real thing did happen. The Princess was ablaze...
...yachtsmen's slum"), and there is nothing here for people who think port is something that comes in a bottle. But anybody who can tell a top carling from a garboard strake will want a copy of Spring Tides in his dunnage the next time he does a windward dozen...