Word: seamanship
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sloppiness, no boozing, a solid family life." Many captains are trained, for tuition costs starting at $3,000 a week, at one of three supertanker schools in Holland and France. At Meurs' school, the Dutch Institute for Navigational Training, nearly 100 students a year go through a seamanship course run by a 17-member staff that is headed by, of all professionals, a psychologist. "Stress is becoming a very important factor as the world of shipping becomes more complicated and increases the need for men who can make cool, fast decisions," says Meurs. At the school, part...
...Wilson is more interesting than that, and his memoirs have a truer texture than his windfall novel. He was born into an Eastern family of faded affluence, whose wealth was more attitude than actuality. There was sufficient reality, however, that young Wilson could learn seamanship aboard the family yacht. When the U.S entered World War II, he won a quick commission in the Coast Guard, and served eventually as commanding officer of a converted trawler assigned to the dangerous Greenland patrol. He learned to be a good skipper under the contemptuous eye of a great skipper...
...nominees possess formidable credentials. Valerie Schoen, an 18-year-old freshman majoring in Russian at the University of Michigan, graduated from high school with a near-perfect academic record. Her experience on the water is likewise impressive: she has a certificate from the Coast Guard Auxiliary for basic seamanship and has won awards for more than 400 miles of canoeing. Her application to Annapolis "all started as a joke," but Congressman McDonald took it seriously and included her name in his list of nominations...
...painstaking work has a weakness, it lies in its treatment of all those already well-known, oftretold Hornblower adventures-in quarterdeck and boudoir-that did so much to confound Great Britain's enemies in the Napoleonic Wars. It was Horatio Hornblower's peculiar character to combine brilliant seamanship and a calculating mind with such inner ravages of self-doubt that though he never lost a battle-or very rarely so-it always seemed he was about to. From a score of perilous voyages one may perhaps recall the long patrol to Latin America of the frigate Lydia...