To London's Royal Ocean Racing Club, the Duke of Edinburgh, no mean hand at the tiller himself, made a bubbling, ketch-as-ketch-can appeal for greater nautical display in a sailient age: "I hope that more and more crazy people will defy inflation and beggar themselves for the sheer joy and discomfort of ocean racing." Downplaying his own sure yawlmanship, the Duke slyly added: "I know just enough about sailing and the sea to have an unbounded admiration for anybody who belongs to this club. If I had any more knowledge of sailing and the sea,...
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