Word: schooners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Zoologist Henry Del Guidice and the crew of his schooner track a giant sea turtle across 1,500 miles of open sea to study its navigational ability in "Solomon, the Sea Turtle...
Wednesday, December 11 DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).- Burgess Meredith narrates this special about man against the sea. It includes wind-whipped scenes of a schooner rounding Cape Horn, the voyage of the replica of the Mayflower, and two Englishmen's crossing of the North Atlantic in a 20-ft. rowboat...
Three guys own an elegant 95-foot schooner called The Quest, which they charter to anyone rich enough to pay the fare-and get into trouble. Sneak preview...
...Peary asked if he would like to join an Arctic expedition. Donald MacMillan not only went north that time-on the first successful journey to the Pole-but returned to the Arctic 35 times as leader of his own expeditions, mostly at the helm of his 80-ft. schooner Bowdoin, before he and his boat retired together in 1959. Author of several books, including the first Eskimo-English dictionary, MacMillan was a botanist and zoologist as well as the last of the dogsled explorers, remained spry enough in his 70s to earn a rear admiral's stripes locating airfield...
Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, when he sailed his new, 102-ft. pilot schooner America to England in 1851 to do battle with the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight. The original price of the America was to be $30,000, but her builder had to knock her down to $20,000 because she did not prove the fastest boat in the U.S.* Against...