Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That night-July 4- was no night for Sunday seamen. The schooner Morning Star radioed to shore: "Heavy swells with cross-chop." Radiomen on other boats were more explicit: all hands were sick and wished they were dead. The yawl Emerald's crew let their stomachs guide them-back to port. Patolita lost her mainsail. One boat had hopefully taken along a dry-land chef. Near Catalina Island he was feeling poorly; he put to sea in a life preserver, was picked up and taken ashore in a guide boat...
...approached. The night the leaders were expected in, hundreds of Hawaiians watched all night from the shore. At 1:52 a.m., amid shouting and honking of horns, the first sail loomed into the searchlight beam that marked the finish line. It was William L. Stewart Jr.'s big yawl Chubasco. But Chubasco, though first to finish, was not the winner. Yachting handicaps are logarithmically calculated by a complicated formula involving length, sail area, etc.; and Chubasco had a small handicap. More than ten hours later, Morgan's Dolphin II sailed past Diamond Head, the winner. Corrected time (after...
Connecticut's Democratic politicos puzzled over whether they had inherited a has-been or an up-&-coming martyr in Chester Bowles. While Bowles cruised in a 39-ft. yawl off the Atlantic coast with his bittermost memories of Washington and OPA, Connecticut Democrats last week worried over a more specific question: did energetic Chester Bliss Bowles intend to try to be governor of Connecticut or would he go after a seat in the U.S. Senate...
...will now fall on the new president, Arthur Bartlett Homer, 49. Born in Belmont, Mass., Homer graduated from Brown University and Annapolis, served in World War I as a lieutenant on submarines, joined Beth Steel in 1919. During World War II, Homer, whose hobby is sailing his 40-foot yawl, bossed Beth Steel's shipbuilding program. In five years he turned out 900 major ships, everything from aircraft carriers to trawlers, twice as much sea power as any other company...
There were other, less dramatic joys-a visit to a county fair, a meal in a roadside restaurant, an idle ride aboard a yawl or cabin cruiser or outboard-powered rowboat...