Word: sail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Atlantic in a 40-ft. ketch. There was Michel (the father, the Frenchman, the architect) and Janis (the mother, the Californian, the first mate), and their little boy Sean and his baby brother Brendan, as newborn at the time as his father's dream -- everyman's dream -- to sail away...
There were conflicting reports on just how the accident occurred. It happened at 7:50 p.m. just after the ferry, loaded with people and vehicles, pulled out of the harbor for what would be a 4 -hour sail. Seas were calm near the harbor...
...invention that he is particularly enthusiastic about is a hydro-foil sailboat designed to sail at twice the speed of the wind propelling it. The boat was a finalist in the 1981 international Rolex Awards for enterprise...
...Atlantic and Pacific oceans, the Panama Canal remains one of the engineering marvels of the world. At one end of the 50-mile-long waterway, the 12,000 ships that traverse it annually are lifted 85 ft. above sea level by a series of locks, enabling them to sail through the mountainous spine of the Panama Isthmus. When they reach the opposite coast, another set of locks floats them gently back down to the ocean...
...some sea or other, Conner is staying on. The speculation that has him quitting America's Cup sailing this year, win or lose, is wrong. "Win, lose or draw, I'm going to sail the next America's Cup, the next one and the one after that. As long as I have the fire and the drive, I have the imagination. I have to keep running to stay ahead. I'm the standard...