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Nearly everyone seems to be rooting for hapless Australia. Just after the start there is a moment of hope: she edges ahead and tacks to starboard, taking Ted Turner and Courageous with her. But soon the two ships are driving into the haze as they tack toward the windward mark 4.5 miles away. At a distance, they sometimes resemble two white tents set side by side on a field of blue. As Australia drops behind, boredom is kept at bay on Provincetown by the practice of underdoggery, a game I know well from a boyhood spent as a diehard...
Referring to the heat Carter had taken on his tax statements, Powell laughed and said to nearby press, "See. You bastards tell us to get specific. And when we do, we burn our ass on 'em. Kinda like spittin' to windward...
...oldest and largest firm is Caribbean Sailing Yachts, Inc., founded in 1967 by a sea-obsessed New Jersey dentist named Dr. John van Ost. C.S.Y. has 94 boats at its three bases -Abaco in the Bahamas, Tortola in the B. V.I. and St. Vincent, far south in the Windward Islands. Last year about 31,000 people chartered from these firms. To discover the joys-and tribulations -of bareboating, TIME Senior Writer Robert Hughes recently spent ten days sailing Relaxin', a C.S.Y. Carib 39, through the Grenadines. His report...
...cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program...
...1970s in something other than its usual urban form-a grandiose ashtray plunked down to decorate a skyscraper's barren forecourt. The Newport exhibition is worth the trip, even though few things in it are quite as aesthetically stirring as a glimpse of Intrepid beating to windward...