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...yachtsmen, a youngster old enough to sit still is old enough to learn to sail. On Long Island Sound, cruising ground of thousands of summer sailors, a boy or girl of ten is old enough to race his own boat in "midget" class (under 15 years) events. Last week the best of the midgets raced for the championship of the Sound, and the silver-crusted Scovill Cup which is emblematic...
...year-old Toni Monetti, a tiny (4 ft. 8 in., 80 Ibs.), fluffy-haired blonde who owns no boat and had never tried for the Scovill Cup before. She borrowed a friend's boat, the Bijope, and with her crew (two 14-year-old boys), she managed to sail her way into the five-boat championships...
...first of the finals, her boat began heeling over in the wind. Shouting orders to her crew, Toni set the tiller carefully, shrewdly tacked upwind around the other boats and forged ahead. Toni's tactical philosophy: "The wind that comes off another boat's sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat Bay Yacht Club...
...call each of 96 colleagues to ask if she had a brother or uncle suitable for marriage (the 87th said she had). Any place is a good place for the assault, said Miss Carlyle. On cruises, ask the booking agent "when and where eligible bachelors sail ... Kiddingly coax the deck steward into placing you between the two handsomest men on the boat...
...Best." Craig drives his men unflaggingly. They grumble about it, but they worship Craig. At Pendleton's Navy relief carnival last month, when Craig had already been ordered to sail for Korea with his combat team, a Marine corporal approached Mrs. Craig and said: "Excuse me, ma'am, but I'd like to talk to you, if you don't mind." As Mrs. Craig continues the story, "The man said he was a little drunk, and he was, but he wanted to say that he had been posted away from the brigade to another outfit. Then...