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"If he hits one of those sloops, there won't be enough left to make a pair of chopsticks"

Yubari caht for them"

The hydroplane charged into the h a flock of chickens The skippers wildly slewed their boats in all directions, losing the wind, full sails suddenly collapsing and flapping uncontrollably

The inevitable occurred as the hydroplane slashed across the bow of one yacht, tearing away its bowsprit and losing a windshield in the bargain Then it was free, leaving the fleet scattered and rolling heavily in its whipping wake

Yubari and Sakai were entranced by thecurve and set a course for the Honjo Maru The sh now so they could make out a form hunched over the wheel in the cockpit

Suddenly it became obvious to them that the driver had been injured when the sloop's bowsprit swept away the windshield

There was no ti blasts fro but stand in frozen i an accident in theand helpless to prevent it

They instinctively ducked as the hydroplane crashed square into the Honjo Maru's port beaasoline flah into the air end over end before s onto the forecastle Scattered bits of fiery debris splattered the ship like shrapnel from a bos fell of it of the sky for several seconds, raining about the ship and splashing in the river

Miraculously no one was hurt on board the containership Yubari ordered "all stop" on the engines A boat was lowered to search the area astern, where oil was drifting up fro on the loells

All that was found of the hydroplane's driver was a charred leather jacket and a pair of broken plastic goggles

As the afternoon wore on, the uarded optimism A steady stream of men and equipment poured aboard from the Phoenix and the Huron Soon auxiliary pu into the lower decks And once the remains of the derrick were cut away, the list was reduced to nineteen degrees

Most of the seriously injured, including Heidi, were transferred to the more spacious medical facilities on board the Phoenix Pitt met her on deck as her litter was carried up from below

"Wasn'tthe ash-blond hair from her eyes

"I wouldn't have amely He leaned over and kissed her "I'll visit you first chance I get"

Then he turned and cli ladder to the control room Rudi Gunn met him in the doorway