Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pleasure cruise for landlubbers; it has hazards enough of its own. Foul weather makes up out of nowhere, fog abounds, squalls are sharp and sudden. By playing those unpredictable elements shrewdly last week, Nicholas J. Geib, 39, a manufacturer of musical-instrument cases, brought home his nimble 39-ft. yawl Fleetwood through the Straits of Mackinac to lead the 63-ship fleet on corrected time of 40 hr. 10 min. 3 sec. (His actual time...
...rode her lovingly to catch every puff of wind as she bowled past Bermuda's St. David's Head at 9:10 a.m. one day last week. Observers were impressed with the seamanship, even though such homestretch finesse was no longer necessary-the broad-beamed little centerboard yawl had won the Newport-to-Bermuda race (on corrected time) by 11¼ minutes, the smallest yacht ever to win the Atlantic classic. It had been a rough, squally passage for the record field of 89 boats, and one had even gone down on a Bermuda reef. But Finisterre...
...exactly, the handicapping distance was 675. Finisterre took a starboard tack off Newport with a 163° compass course. In late evening the wind shifted to the southwest, and Mitchell's crew changed from a spinnaker to a balloon jib. As the small (38 ft. 8 in. overall) yawl left coastal waters, the crew took hourly water-temperature readings, knew they had entered the warm-water Gulf Stream when the thermometer rose to 78°. Navigation was difficult during the whole crossing because of overcast, and Finisterre navigated the last 75 miles by Bermuda radio...
...later career as a British army officer in India and Malaya, he nourished a youthful dream that someday he would sail home in his own boat. When he re tired in England seven years ago, Major Hayter, then 34, put all his savings into a sturdy nine-ton yawl, Sheila 11, took a course in deep-sea navigation and got ready for the long voyage home...
...helps them to relax. Chrysler Corp. President L. L. ("Tex") Colbert religiously takes a long (i½-to 4-mile) walk every evening, says his mind is "anywhere but on business." Industrial Designer William Snaith of Manhattan's Raymond Loewy Associates, who sails a 47½-ft. yawl in his spare time, says: "Any activity that reunites us with elemental natural forces brings back the living, breathing human being...