A four-hour pounding down the tricky, debris-laden Hudson River in a bucking outboard motorboat is not every man's idea of the way to spend Sunday morning. But to some people, it is the high spot of the year. This week 234 of such enthusiasts clambered into their tiny, buglike craft and racketed hopefully off the starting mark at Albany, in the 18th annual marathon to New York City. Of the 234 starters, 115 finished, and that was about par for the 130-mile course.
One spun, over and capsized at the start, several ran into driftwood and tore their hulls. Some quit with...
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