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Beeps for the Deeps. For sailboat skippers, the biggest eye-catcher was Luders Marine Construction Co.'s racy 40-ft. sloop, made from molded mahogany plywood, the biggest molded plywood hull yet made. Price: $38,500. For cruising yachtsmen, both power and sail, the electronics industry had some new gadgets. Both RCA and Raytheon displayed new lightweight radar and sonar sets that could search out schools of fish as well as tell the precise depth of the water. Bendix even has a radar set for close-in navigating that shows objects as near...
...year to air-condition and modernize the famed old Casino itself, and build a new dance pavilion. For tourists he will start direct air service between England, Italy and Monte Carlo, with huge, four-engine aerial freighters so that guests can fly in with their cars. For yachtsmen he will build a huge concrete pyramid 200 yds. outside the harbor entrance, thus breaking up the Mediterranean swells that rock yachts in the harbor. As a final bow to luxury, Onassis plans to smooth Monte Carlo's pebbly, ankle-spraining beach by laying a carpet of concrete...
...night and day before, other eager millions had clustered, to follow the course of Her Majesty's yacht Britannia. As it steamed slowly toward the Pool of London, it was escorted by warships of the Royal Navy and the greatest flotilla of private craft since Britain's yachtsmen set forth in a body to rescue the British forces on the beach at Dunkirk. Some fresh from their beds in pajamas and trenchcoats, others stiff with long waiting, the observers on shore pinched each other at the sight of any moving figure on the yacht's deck...
Beaten by M.I.T. sailors in meets on Saturday and Sunday, the varsity yachtsmen rebounded yesterday to outrace the Engineers and four other colleges on the Charles, thereby winning the Oberg trophy and the Boston area championship...
...owner: Harry J. (for Johnston) Grant, 72, a florid-faced millionaire with china-blue eyes, a mouthful of flashing gold teeth, and the booming voice of a sideshow barker. But energetic, stubby (5 ft. 8¾ in., 220 Ibs.) Harry Grant did not act like the run of carefree yachtsmen. When he was not tending the deep-sea fishing line trailing over the stern, he riffled through mountains of papers, pounded out letters and memos on a portable typewriter, talked by ship-to-shore phone...