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...days still stands. But his Ridiculously Small Boat celebrity vanished in only two weeks, when Bill Dunlop, 42, a former truck driver from Mechanic Falls, Me., bobbed into the harbor at Falmouth, England, in Wind's Will, a teapot just over 9 ft. long that he had sailed from Portland. The two became friends, but McClean was not having second best; he told Dunlop that he would chain-saw several inches from Giltspur and sail the Atlantic again...
...rustic redwood scene where campers bring their own sleeping bags and mix VisiCalc with volleyball. The Computer Resort in Chico, Calif, sponsored by Texas Instruments, features jumbo-size steaks barbecued around a swimming pool. Princess Cruises in Los Angeles will coordinate 15 hours of classes with a ten-day sail that includes calls at Mazatlan, Puerto Vallarta and Acapulco. Cost: $1,995. Prefer your silicon seminars on terra firma? For $879, Club Med provides Atari computers along with white-sand beaches and pina coladas at Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic...
...saxophone and tries to learn to play it like Charlie Parker. He hitches up with an older acquaintance who takes him on a boat ride across Puget Sound. The purpose of the trip turns out to be cocaine smuggling, and Suder manages to push his host overboard and sail off with all the loot. Then he wins an elephant at a carnival and names it Renoir...
Once the British task force set sail, its commanders had only a hazy notion of what to do when they arrived. They met an unexpectedly formidable enemy: the foul South Atlantic winter, which claimed lives and aircraft and often made fighting impossible. The war's major weapons, as expected, were missiles. Yet some of the most advanced models stumbled: Argentina's air-to-ship Exocets sank the destroyer Sheffield but usually missed their mark, and Britain's ground-to-air Rapiers proved unreliable. In the end, it was not technology that won and lost...
These are twelve-meter yachts, called simply twelves, a reference not to their length of 65 ft. or so but to the quotient of a complicated formula involving water line, sail area and displacement. Auto racers tune their engines no more fastidiously than boat architects tweak their designs. Discretion is usually the rule. The captain of the British syndicate-like the love life of a horse, an America's Cup boat is never the property of an individual, always a syndicate-is a multimillionaire financier by the name of Peter de Savary. In the corridors of the N.Y.Y.C...