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Measure of Need. At its best, the Tasman Sea is no pleasant cruising ground for yachtsmen. Crossing in autumn, Hayter ran into foul weather, saw only two days of sunshine in eleven weeks. In rough going, when he would normally have ridden out the blow hove to, he slogged ahead. He was running short of rations, had nothing but wet clothes and knew he was pitting his strength against time. He never spotted another ship. When he finally made a landfall on New Zealand's west coast near Karamea, he hoisted distress signals but no one saw them...
Night and day-for the Tropic closes only on Panama's election days-customers came and went: freighter captains, Navy C.P.O.s, Panama Presidents and judges, pugs, policemen and passing yachtsmen. A young U.S. Army officer named Dwight Eisenhower once cashed his paycheck there; Argentina's exiled ex-President Juan Perón has dropped in lately. In the early '30s Aimee Semple McPherson, the thrice-divorced Foursquare Gospelbinder, visited Belgray's incognito...
Down on the Seekonk River at Providence Sunday, the opposition was better and the sailing more exciting. As a result, the Crimson yachtsmen placed second behind Brown in other Jack Wood Trophy Pentagonal. M.I.T., the Coast Guard, and Dartmouth finished further back in that order. John Reed's last-minute tactics against ace Brown sailor John Quinn in Class B was the standout maneuver of the meet...
...Britain, Cowes Week is to yachtsmen what Ascot is to the horsy set. Last week hundreds of sleek racing craft, white and scarlet sails shining in the sun, gathered on the Medina estuary at Cowes on the Isle of Wight for one of Britain's biggest regattas since King George V went there to sail in 1935. This time, too, there was racing royalty on hand. The sports-loving Duke of Edinburgh left his queen at home, and by helicopter hastened out to the royal yacht Britannia, happy to escape temporarily from Buckingham pomp and ceremony. At sundown...
...Racing yachtsmen who have made the long, downwind thrash from California to Hawaii are convinced that the trans-Pacific race is the toughest test of men and ships yet devised. Sail, rigging, hull and nerves are strained to the breaking point as crews drive their craft before the northeasterly trade winds over most of the 2,225 miles of open sea between San Pedro and Honolulu...