Word: yachtsmanship
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...boat to victory. But those familiar with the Melbourne skipper were not surprised: Bertrand's great-grandfather had helped build Sir Thomas Lipton's towering boats for early 20th century America's Cup competitions. As Bertrand admits in Born to Win, he relied as much on gamesmanship as yachtsmanship. He called the boat's new forward-slanted keel his secret weapon, and only now confesses that the keel was a fake, intended only to unnerve the competition. He employed a sports psychologist to whip his crew into an athletic frenzy, then made his Ahabian prediction: "We are going to sail...
...captain proposed to Durrell's mother. One learns of "Gerry's" visit to Corfu's countess, a dotty and rotund old party who forced him to share a six-course lunch climaxed by a whole wild boar. There are inevitable references to the boat-scuttling yachtsmanship of Eldest Brother Larry (now better known as the author of The Alexandria Quartet...
Novelist Nicholas Monsarrat (TIME, Jan. 13, 1941) has turned his amateur yachtsmanship to use as a lieutenant on the Corvette Flower. This is his third winter of service in the North Atlantic convoys. Corvettes are the smallest British vessels in active service. They "would roll on wet grass," and some of Lieut. Monsarrat's most vivid writing describes merely the mixture of discomfort and deep pride which the corvettes engender in the heroic, fatalistic corvetteers who man them...
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