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...Nassau, B.W.I., more than 48 hours after leaving Miami, the 39-ft. yawl Hoot Mon (skippered by Lockwood Pirie, a reformed, Star-boat sailor) drifted across the finish line in the slowest Miami-Nassau race on record and won that blue-water championship for the second year running...
Well-versed in naval architecture and navigation, Puleston left his bank job in 1931, and, with one companion, sailed across the Atlantic in the 31-ft. yawl Uldra. For six years he adventured around the world, and stopped barely long enough to get married: his honeymoon (with the former Elizabeth Ann Wellington of Manhattan) was spent on a 110-ft. vessel sailing from San Francisco to Tahiti. Puleston took time out to write a sensitive travel book, Blue Water Vagabond (Doubleday) , and to do a few bird paintings - most of which he gave away as presents. He was surprised when...
...head of the Technical Information Division at Brookhaven National Laboratory and a member of two panels of the Atomic Energy Commission, Puleston lives at marsh's edge in the Long Island village of Brookhaven. From the window he can see his 34-ft. yawl, the Heron, or look across Great South Bay to waterfowl feeding grounds. Bird painting is strictly a hobby, pursued in a corner of his dining alcove, usually amid the clatter and commotion set up by four children (aged five to 14) and an assortment of pets...
...yawl Baruna was built by the Quincy Adams Yacht Yard. For a picture of Nevins' Llanoria, on which Reader Roosevelt sailed as a crewman when she won her Seawanhaka trophy...
NEVINS YACHT yard will continue to build and repair custom yachts, thanks to a last-minute rescue by Carl Hovgard, 48, president of the Research Institute of America and enthusiastic yachtsman (his Swedish-built yawl Circe won the Class B Newport-Bermuda race last month). Hovgard bought the yard, which was going to close (TIME, July 12) for a reported $900,000, will keep the Nevins name, try to run the company as a break-even hobby...