Word: winterers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wind in the sails had grown too raw by last week for most U.S. salts, and the annual effort of putting up the boats for winter was nearly completed. The usual technique is to haul them out, secure them on cradles and cover them with canvas. The method is timehonored, but in many ways unsatisfactory. In the first Place, wooden hulls tend to "come and go"' that is, the timbers shrink in the dry winter air, expand when put back in the water. As a result, hulls can warp, fittings are sometimes sheared. Secondly, the cradle in which...
Most of these problems are sidestepped by a new method: putting the boat in a bubble bath for the winter. Marina owners have found that a simple ½-h.p. air compressor, humming away throughout the cold months, can be used to pump air through perforated tubing that lies on the bottom of the harbor. The resulting bubbles then rise and carry with them the relatively warmer water on the bottom-the same lower strata of water that keep fish alive through the winter. Thus constantly replenished by water from below, the surface is kept above the freezing point, even when...
...following weekend, the skaters fly to upstate New York to face Clarkson and St. Lawrence, two of the East's four top teams. It is not until December 14 that Harvard plays in its own rink -- against a Brown team that beat the Crimson twice last winter...
...Crimson is set in the goal with Bill Fitzsimmons, a two-year starter, and Bill Diercks, freshman sensation last winter. Fitzsimmons will start against Bowdoin, but Weiland will probably experiment with alternate goalies once the grueling season gets under...
Failure at 5 a.m. Next week, with Thanksgiving behind them, Julia and Paul Child will be off to winter in the house that the book built, next door to Simone Beck in Grasse, above the French Riviera. There, Julia and Simca will get down to the serious work of preparing Volume II of Mastering the Art. The new volume will follow the same pattern as the first, but will vary the recipes and include such new material as puff pastry, brioches, croissants and a plain chocolate cake. Promises Julia: "It's going to be the best chocolate cake anyone...