Word: yachted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Caribbean was her ultimate destination. A few hours out of Newburgh, ice was beginning to elbow his yacht alarmingly, suddenly cut a gash in her planking. In rushed the water. There was nothing to do but abandon ship and take to the rowboat. Mournfully the professor watched his dream of ten years, his $100,000 yacht on which he had no insurance, flop top-heavily on its side. Next thing he and his two shipmates noticed was that the builders had neglected to put seats and oarlocks in the rowboat. They drifted helplessly away with the current. The rowboat leaked...
High & dry on three floors of Manhattan's Grand Central Palace were 115 motorboats, 35 sailboats, skiffs, prize-winning racers, gadgets, motors, motor fuels. Outstanding gadget: The Hazard Tension Meter, a mandolin-style sound box tunable to a pitch pipe, to attach to yacht rigging for determining desired tautness. Based on a complicated device used for years on America's Cup Defenders, the popular Hazard comes to merer skippers at $25. Outstanding motor yacht: a 57-foot, superluxurious, poly-gadgeted Elco cruiser with clipper bow, flying bridge, streamlined superstructure, berthing a party of six, crew of two. Price...