Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Captain Bligh to Sir Francis Chichester, countless modern Englishmen still seek out high mountains or arctic wastes, race over deserts, relentlessly push through tropical jungles. The latest of that intrepid breed-and Britain's new nautical hero -tottered ashore at Portsmouth last week from the tubby 36-ft. yawl in which he had circled the globe alone. Seagoing Greengrocer Alec Rose, 59, declared: "This bug gets into one's blood." Praising his "tenacity, skill and courage, "Queen Elizabeth knighted Rose and invited him and his wife Dorothy to lunch at Buckingham Palace...
...canvases have won respectful reviews in four Manhattan exhibits. His first book, a diatribe about trends in art and architecture called The Irresponsible Arts, drew mostly critical barbs, but Across the Western Ocean fared better. It consists mostly of the log of two trips in his 47-ft. yawl, Figaro III. In the book, Skipper Snaith, one of the world's top transoceanic sailors, wrote: "We are all swarmy in our many layers of clothing. This morning I thought I smelled a horse. When I turned around to look, there was nobody...
...anywhere from $2 per day at the Ninnescah Yacht Club near Wichita, Kans., to $10 per day at the crowded slips in Newport. Yearly maintenance on a 23-ft. Star-class racer costs between $500 and $1,000-and the annual tab for a 40-ft. ocean-racing yawl can top five figures...
Harvard's 44 foot yawl, which qualified by finishing third in the McMillan regatta, will be captained by junior Tony Parker, generally regarded as one of the best sailors in New England. Leading the after guard will be senior John Cunningham, a veteran of several Bermuda races...
...Shepley is a practicing sports-man-big-game hunting, fishing, sailing. He has captained his yawl, Andromeda, on many a blue-water race, including the Newport-to-Bermuda run last spring...