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...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...
...Movement, which attempted an abortive anti-Trujillo invasion from Cuba in 1959. To exactly what extent Bosch himself knew of the Castroite involvement is unclear. The fact remains that in the past few weeks, according to intelligence sources, considerable numbers of Cuban-trained Dominicans have been slipping across the Windward Passage. Last week three boats loaded with about 65 Dominicans were seen leaving the Cuban port of Santiago. "I reported the conspiracy to President Reid for 15 or 20 consecutive days," says Wessin y Wessin, "but he paid no attention...
...heat held at M.I.T., Crimson ace Time Prince won eight out of ten races. In one race he lost his main sheet and dropped to second place as he sailed the windward leg re-threading the sheet. He regained his lead on the leeward leg, however, and finished first despite the mishap...
...first three races, Britain's Peter Scott had at least outmaneuvered Constellation's Bob Bavier at the start, had lost because Sovereign simply could not stay in the same water with the U.S. boat on the windward legs. But last week Scott did not even have the satisfaction of the start. Running along the starting line, he cut across too soon, had to wear back to the line, and start all over again. By then, Bavier had Constellation off and running, six boat-lengths ahead. Scott tried a few desultory tacks, mostly for exercise, then sat back...