Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - June 1, 1976, Winnipeg, Manitoba Winnipeg free press for people tuesday june i. 1976 pages 15-26 x. Now it s your coat that goes under wraps layering French style in such depth you can do your own thing because no one will know who is doing it you d think would end with a jacket or coat. Wrong. Over your coat go two or three scarfs and if that in t enough there s a shawl or a Blanket. Hoods seem to be on half the sweaters jackets and Coats shown in Paris. They Are not worn Over a Bare head. The Way they do it there is to throw a Hood Over a knitted Cap on the then the whole thing s Fin Ishea off with mittens or a Muff on a string. There s plenty of coat news both under wraps and in Plain View in French collections. Classic Trench styles some hooded Are shown prominently in Wool Gaca Duic in traditional autumn shades of Navy Black Grey and Brown As Well As in powder Blue. Some have hoods and pockets trimmed in contrasting shades. At Given Chy quilted poplin Trench Coats trimmed in dark Mink Are news. Karl lager Feld takes a real stand for the structured coat with his Polo Trench and Cossack types. By Rhoda Feldman the Duffel coat in every possible length is an important item. They Ace a part of the Yves St. Laurent collection. At dior Marc Bohan s duffels Are in striped Olive grape Rich red and slate to hair sometimes trimmed with leather. There Are also hooded Duffel Coats As Well As parkas and blouson at Valentino. Duffels Are a High Light of the George Rech col Lection. At Ungaro the Duffel showed up in Cocoa and Strawberry Over straight narrow tunics and Over Nar Row White Wool flannel traditional european looks Are the Loden Coats and the Heather weaves shown by Daniel Hechter de signed with fullness in the Back and with wide shoulders to be worn Over potential layering. With All the clothes put together we end up with a new Bullet proof look. Color is rampant in Blanket cats part of the look Paris is calling folkloric boldly striped or magnificently patterned in Aztec Indian or nordic designs. These Are Shewn in everything from poncho to Duffel styles. At issey Miyake. Blanket Wool striped Coats worn Over harem pants you can take the pants or leave them Are winners. Easy mohair wraps Are news at Ungaro and big plaid mohair at Gudule. The coat segment of the Castel Bajac collection wraps things up with duffels Nylon Cire rain Trench Coats As Well As a group of deluxe beige Wool Blanket Coats with deep Brown Stripe accents. Capes Are everywhere ranging from huge moroccan hooded ones at St. Laurent to Huger or is it More Multi layered Multi levelled ones at issey Miyake to Cor Duroy Cape Coats at Kenzo. Ponchos Are also a part of most collections colourful with Indian markings and often fringed. Wool gabardine and velours Corduroy and mohair Are fabrics prominent in coat segments of collections with the traditional Loden and Loden Type of fabric also Fea tured. Whatever coat you choose for Winter Don t worry about getting tired of it. You can always cover it All up come january. A big Muff and a Mohai Blanket and you re ready for anything Well almost anything. Trans Atlantic yachtsmen get Choice ten run in apr and it the observer London to sail across the North Atlantic from East to West presents the single hander with a wide variety of choices. Whichever Way he decides to go there arc advantages and snags. Basically competitors in the 197g Royal Western observer single handed transatlantic yacht race will have two alternatives on leaving Plymouth june 5 to follow the shortest route from ply Mouth to Newport Rhode is land or to Cut away to the Southwest and follow the Kinder azores route. Now the direct track or great Circle route As it would be called by a navigator seems at first to have every thing going for it. Being the most direct it is the shortest about Miles. Significantly it is also the route chosen by every winning yacht in the race s history. But there Are snags. First the prevailing winds in that part of the North Atlantic Are southwesterly making the voyage one Long tiring beat into the Teeth of the wind. The skipper must sail off North for a spell keeping As close into the wind As he can then put the boat about and come South on the other tack. This is very tiring for a single hander and it also makes exact navigation much More important. In the very first race in the series Back in 1960, when the finish line was at new York the eventual win Ner was very despondent about sailing constantly into the wind. Francis Chichester reported we have Only been making four knots with the number three Jib and the main reefed. Nor Are we going in the right direction. The wind is straight from new York. Goodbye to my Hopes of a fast As if that were not discouragement enough the great Circle route Sailor faces several other natural hazards. His track will take him close to Newfoundland and Nova Scotia where there is a real risk of icebergs Drifting South during june and july and fog is a constant threat. In one area to the East of Newfoundland fog reduces visibility to less than half a mile for about 30 per cent of the time during these months. In the 1972 race Jock Bra Zier sailed Well to the North in his Ketch flying Angel. When he arrived in Newport he said i saw this huge thing coming Over the Hori Zon and it Iff oked just like a Block of Flats. I did t get Loo close to it he estimated that the ice Berg was at least 150 feet High and might even have been As High As 300 feet. No threat in Daylight and Good visibility maybe but a distinct danger at night or when there s fog. In the 1968 race Leslie Williams was sailing spirit of Cutty Sark. When he was approaching the Eastern Seaboard of the North american continent he suddenly had a premonition that there were icebergs around in the night and Hove to for a spell. The same thing happened to Mike my Mullen when he sailed bin Kie ii in the 1972 race. He was convinced that he had been in the Middle of the ice bergs even though he had not seen any. I was so bloody frightened that i Hove to for five he told me in Newport. Yet there May be some compensation in taking the great Circle route besides its shortness. When the Solo skipper is starting to turn Southwest to travel the coast towards Newport and the finishing he May be helped on his Way by the la Brador current. it comes Down the David Strait to the West of Greenland and flows southward along the Eastern american Seaboard. In practice i have never found a single hander who really believes in it. Certainly none of the 1972 Skippers who went to the North reported any beneficial current. Of course most of them were too occupied groping their Way through the fog which abounded that year to take much notice of half knot cur rents. So what of the alternative the azores route the first Point about it is that it is much longer about Miles. But it still appeals to some Skippers for two main reasons. First the winds Are More Likely to be on the beam Down there and it is possible for a yacht to be reaching the fastest Point of sailing for Days on end with out any tiring sail changes. Second the seas Are Kinder and the Sun a lot warmer important considerations when the Solo Sailor has to conserve his Energy. But Why a split Between the two routes Why not take a path Between the two it should be possible to sail about Miles keeping South of the icebergs and fog without putting another 500 Miles on the passage surely that s where the Gulf Stream becomes Allim portent. This major Ocean current flows out of the Gulf of Mexico and diagonally across the North Atlantic to wards Britain. It is a definite impediment to the Progress of a yacht in mid Atlantic and gets stronger As you voyage farther West. So you have to get below it by going Down to the azores and then turning West. A yacht taking that course has never won the observer single handed but several have come close. In 1968 Tom Follett took the tiny Proa cheers Down that and finished third Only just a Little More than a Day be Hind the Winner. Four years later the Frenchman Jean Marie Vidal sailed his trimaran Cap 33 along the Southern route and took third place also less than four Days behind the re Cord breaking pen Duick in. But the really significant Point about the azores route is the difference in sailing conditions. Tom Follett s path in 1968 meant that Al though his route was actually much longer than the great Circle he covered fewer sea Miles than the two big Mono hulls which beat my to new port because they had been tacking Back and Forth across the Ocean to beat those Southwest Erliss while he was reaching along on a course almost due West. That fact made Bill to Well the most experienced skipper in the race change his tactics in 1972. He had taken the Northern track in 1964 and 1968, but chose the azores route for his third at tempt. In doing so he was determined not to be tempted to Cut Back northwards too Early and so get caught in the Gulf Stream s Adverse current. Tom Follett went much farther North than i did this Howell told me after the race. I reckon he Proba Bly lost a Day and a half As a result. I kept Down around the 38 to 39 degrees North latitudes and checked whether i was getting any Adverse currents by comparing my logged mileage against my dead reckoning position. The whole Point is that it is much easier to find the Edge of the Gulf Stream on the North Side than it is to the South. On the Northern Edge you get warm water in the Stream meeting cold water from the Labrador current. It is easy to know where you Are by checking the temperature and sometimes you can even see a difference in the color of the water. But on the South Side you have warm water meeting warm water and it makes it much More it is significant that the yachts which have done Well on the Southern route have been Multi hulls. Trimarans and catamarans Are at their Best with the wind on the beam and some designs do not relish plugging into head winds. I would expect this year s front runners to take the Northern track with Only few exceptions. Alain Colas and club Mediterraneo will undoubtedly keep North. But Jean Yves t e r 1 a i n might be tempted to go South with the big catamaran Kriter Iii. And Bill Howell will almost certainly follow the path which would have put him in fifth place last time if he had t been in collision with a russian trawler close to Newport. But Mike Mcmullen the Man who has taken Over three cheers from Tom Follett will keep North. His sturdy trimaran is very fast on a reach but Points Well to Windward too so he s be looking for the most direct Way to the finish. Don t expect to see any class winners going outside those two major tracks but it is Worth remembering that there Are other alternatives. There is the Northern route to Start with. This course involves going Well to the North of the great Circle pos Sibly getting As High As 57 degrees North. It puts extra Miles on of course and it can be a cold and cheerless sail for the Solo skipper. But it has been known to produce steady East winds which will whistle a yacht along to wards Newfoundland. Sinatra s letter the Pimp one going on show is by Mike Royko Chicago daily news Chicago Frank Sinatra s famous copyrighted letter in which he so eloquently Calls me a Pimp is going to be displayed in a Muse uni. I did t know it would turn out this Way but the letter has been sold to the highest bidder and she happens to operate a museum in Rockford 111. She intends to display it As some kind of moral lesson to others. The purchaser is mrs. Vie Carlson who bid i told All my children that i d like to buy the letter mrs. Carlson said so they gave me my Mother s Day gifts i Cash. That s How i could afford mrs Carlson says the letter will be shown in one of the rooms of Western which is a replica of any old time american Frontier Community the Carlson family created near their Rockford Home. They operate it As a non profit museum and it is open to the Public. We have Many old letters on display from civil War Days and mrs. Carlson explained. _ i think the Sinatra letter will be useful in showing that we have reached a period in this country when we have rather shallow priorities on heroes. But before i put it on display i la probably carry it in my purse and show it to the girls at the Check out mrs. Carlson a deeply religious woman also says that she intends to include Sinatra in her prayers in Hopes of helping him mend his ways. To be she said i would not have paid two cents for that letter under Normal circumstances. But be cause you said the Money would be Given to the salvation army i decided to bid. I m vers fond of that Organiza and so mrs. Carlson s Check for will be turned Over to the salvation army and she can then put up Sinatra s letter and possibly deter aspiring crooners from the path of wickedness. I m sure of Blue eyes when he penned his outburst did not know he was performing an indirect act of Good. Readers who sent in to obtain a genuine copy of Sina tra s famous letter will soon be receiving them. Due to my Gimpy leg i have fallen behind in opening my mail i Slit open envelopes with a Long but i m catching up. I m not sure Why anybody would want a genuine copy 01 this letter but dozens of people have asked for them. The proceeds will also be sent on to the salvation army. In bringing the Sinatra letter affair to a conclusion 1 must respond to several people who phoned and screamed that i was against Charity after they heard something to that effect on a lbs radio broadcast. It seems that a Chicago radio commentator has a Rich Friend who owns a Home in Palm Springs Calif. This Rich Man told the radio commentator he would like to own the Sinatra letter and would be willing to make a Large contribution to a Charity to obtain it. However the Rich Man wanted to give the Money to something in Palm Springs such As a Palm Springs museum or Hospital. That was Nice of the Rich Man but i had already saw in my column that the proceeds from the Sale of the letter would go to the salvation army. So i could t very Well accept the Rich Man s offer be cause i would have to Tell the salvation army that i was t giving them the Money after All. That would t be the fair thing to do. That seems simple enough but the radio commentator went on the air and portrayed me As a villain who had prevented some Palm Springs Charity from receiving a Windfall. And several of his listeners called me to say 1 was a cold hearted brute. Observer foreign news service copyright. Custom draperies the fabrics by the Yard or custom made Large teb Gal sheer stocks on custom off sch our Stock fabrics Raee estimates 2 stores to serve you 370 Donald St. 1h North Al Art. 1368 Mcphilips 1 91k North of Lul new Bird. 3384335 shopper s special Pery cd. The season s newest and most desirable fabric at a Sale Price. 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