Word: yawl
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Eight members of the Yacht Club will begin to tune up a 44-ft. yawl on Chesapeake Bay today in preparation for the McMillan Cup races at Annapolis this weekend...
Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
...Escapade, a sleek, 72½-ft. yawl skippered by Baldwin M. Baldwin of Pasadena, Calif., glided past Skagen Lighthouse to lead 17 weary finishers in the Bermuda-Sweden yacht race. Escapade's time for the 3,500-mile voyage: 19 days...
...nightmare of groping through fog, hunting for the flicker of a breeze, and battling howling gales of 60 knots that heeled over the big ocean racers, ripped sails, snapped rudders, and forced sailors to lash themselves to their craft. But fair weather or foul, the short, stubby yawl out of Annapolis was the master of the Atlantic, clipping off miles with the regularity of an ocean liner. When the fleet of 135 boats finished the 635-mile thrash from Newport to Bermuda last week, the overall winner, for an unprecedented third straight time, was Finisterre, owned and skippered...
...Bicks presents a picture of massive calm (though his shirt may be soaking with perspiration), is so efficient in running his staff that he almost always manages to get home for dinner with his wife and two small boys, has time on weekends to sail a chartered 41-ft. yawl on Chesapeake...