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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...
Like Columbus himself, Morison has made four voyages of discovery. In his relentless search for new material on the Admiral's voyages, Morison cruised the Caribbean by yawl (1936-1937): traced Columbus travels along the coast of Santo Domingo (1939); crossed the Atlantic from Palos, Portugal (1939) in an expedition consisting of a 147-foot schooner and a 47-foot ketch; and combed the coast of Cuba and the Bahamas (1940) in the ketch. The actual writing of "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" began at sea, off the Azores in 1939, and was published in 1941. Called "Columbus Junior...
Help! Before she became a Coast Guard Reserve boat, the 3070 was the yacht Zaida, property of the famed yacht sailmaker, George E. Ratsey (who died in New Rochelle after a long illness last week). She is a sleek, 58-ft. yawl, built for racing. Since October she had been in the Coast Guard's offshore patrol, hunting subs. Skipper Curtis Arnall in civilian life was a radio actor and well-known yachtsman; his mate, 33-year-old Joseph Choate, left a job at New York's Guaranty Trust Co. to join the Coast Guard; none...
Once Ma Greene steered the Argand through a cyclone to safe harbor. Once she quieted her passengers' panic when the swell of her boat exploded 40 quarts of nitroglycerin in a yawl tied to shore, caving in the boat's bulkheads and smashing cabin windows. Another time, with one of her sons in her arms, she barked orders that got her boat safely untangled after it had collided with another in a windstorm...
...unamiable divorce. This year Ann Sheridan persuaded him to make his first visit to Giro's, got him to promise to take her to his first premiere. When Brent discovered the premiere was on the night of his weekly navigation class (he recently bought a new 85-ft. yawl), he let the Oomph Girl down...