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Although Crimson yachtsmen still race through the courtesy of MIT, a change of attitude has taken place. Those who supplied the catalyst were a group of Freshmen and Sophomores who wanted very much to sail and a group of alumni who wanted that undergraduates should want very much to sail...
...been three years since the Corporation voted to withdraw financial support from sailing and left the disinherited yachtsmen to pay their way to regattas along the Atlantic Seaboard. They have been two years of apathy and one of renewing interest...
Under the rules no handicaps would be granted, and the course would be left to choice. Auxiliary engines were not to be used, and contestants would solemnly swear to take aboard no supplies during the crossing. The club, somewhat surprisingly, approved. Soon there were 150 inquiries from adventurous yachtsmen as far away as California, and hungry would-be sponsors clamored for a slice of the publicity pie. RCA offered radios, Autolite supplied batteries, and Plymouth Gin solicitously insisted on stocking each boat with a "survival kit"-one part gin, one part vermouth, and a guide to martini mixing...
...those who could afford it, flying to work proved a solution. From half a dozen points on Long Island, small chartered planes shuttled back and forth, adding extra schedules. Happiest of the displaced commuters were the yachtsmen, who found an excuse to make their weekend seagoing pleasure the necessity for a business day. When the strike began, a Manhattan shirt salesman named J. Stanley Aughenbaugh recruited three riders for his 26-ft. cabin cruiser. They enjoy a leisurely breakfast at sea on the way in and drink cocktails on the long voyage home. "It's so much fun that...
...more than her time allowance. The ocean was thick last week with boats that were flatteringly close copies of Finisterre's hippy lines. Finisterre's greatest asset cannot be duplicated for there is only one Carleton Mitchell, and he has gathered and trained an assortment of veteran yachtsmen into an expert crew that is the envy and despair of rival skippers...