Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holland is still picturesque: large hay-boats sail by on the North Sea Canal. When we went under draw bridges the operators lowered small wooden shoes so we could put in a few cents toil. On the other hand, there are many signs of American influence. The proprietor of a very small hotel in Enkhuizen, where few Americans venture, offered me several copies of "Life" while I waited to use his phone. One Sunday we arrived at the tourist-frequented island of Marken to be serenaded by a large excursion steamer blazing the strains of "Cruising Down the River...
...Three race, first of its kind, was so close that a sail-off had to be run to break a three-way tie. Princeton placed second and Yale came in third...
Like the others, she had managed somehow to scrape together 800 kroner to help pay for and provision the refugee barge. With Hugo Ennist. an inexperienced young captain hired at the last minute to guide them, they had set sail from Gäteborg at 2 o'clock one morning a fortnight ago. On the way out of the harbor they hit a rock and stove in the ship's plates. Many of the mattresses got soaked. The passengers slept huddled in corners. The air was hot and fetid in the packed cabin, and drinking water...
...took that picture must be a genius with a camera. Nobody who is worth anything as a sailor his any time to smile and sail around the Netherlands at the same time. Least of all the Dutch...
After that, we sailed mostly on canals, or at night. Neither of these were particularly conducive to postcard reproduction. On the canals you couldn't see the boat for the cows. The Dutch canals run merrily through mile after mile of cow pasture, and all the cows spend most of their time sloping fore-and-aft on a dike and watching people sail by. We started mooing at the cows to break the monotony of higher-than-land-level sailing, but one day we mooed, tacked, and tried to start the engine at the same time, and created a shoreline...