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On the Water

Sloops du Jour off Newport where hopelessness springs eternal The 1977 America's Cup brings out all the low dodges, delusive hopes and suspensions of common sense so essential to refined underdoggery.

In Rhode Island: Rapture of the Shallows A lemon-hued, one-man submarine that can dive safely to 250 ft., stay submerged for an hour at a time and costs (at $12,000 without extras) less than a Cadillac Seville.

Operation Sail Aboard the Topsail Schooner Juan Sebastian de Elcano The Tall Ships sail from Newport to New York.

The Siege of Leyden How the Netherlands escaped the grip of Catholic Spain and the Holy Roman Empire in 1518.

No Revolution ever produced a nobler or a purer spirit. Sailing by the Sticks with Erskine Childers. The Irish struggle for home rule.

In the Whale's Wake THE JONAH MAN by Henry Carlisle.

Hungry for History WE FOLLOWED ODYSSEUS by Hal Roth.

Shadows on the Rock France and Spain join forces during the Great Seige of Gibraltar 1779-1790.

Tapestried Tales of Two Rough Channel Crossings Invasions of England in 1066 by the Normans and of France in 1944 by the Allies, revisited as needlework.