vihlen造句

• Now 71, Vihlen has shelved any immediate sailing plans as he recovers from knee-replacement surgery.
• Facing the prospect that Vihlen might need to be rescued hundreds of miles farther east, the Coast Guard prohibited him from sailing again.
• Vihlen decided to leave from Canada where the distance was shorter, the currents were closer and the U . S . Coast Guard was absent.
• Without them along, I would have driven by the giant lobster once again, never really appreciated its size, and perhaps never heard of Vihlen's claustrophobic accomplishments.
• The voyage is described in Vihlen's book " April Fool, or, How I Sailed from Casablanca to Florida in a Six-foot Boat ".
• Vihlen later sailed an even smaller craft _ the 5-foot-4-inch Father's Day _ from Newfoundland to England and remains the world record holder in that category.
• The village is also the final resting place of the April Fool, an astoundingly tiny craft that Key Largo resident Hugo Vihlen sailed across the Atlantic Ocean from Morocco's Casablanca to Miami in 1968.
• Incidently, the difference between Vihlen and the rowers who have since attempted crossing the Atlantic is that Vihlen sailed a vessel registered in the United States, and therefore was under the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard.
• Incidently, the difference between Vihlen and the rowers who have since attempted crossing the Atlantic is that Vihlen sailed a vessel registered in the United States, and therefore was under the jurisdiction of the Coast Guard.
• On Vihlen's first attempt out of St . John's, Newfoundland, he met his rival and new found friend Tom McNally who was also pursuing the record of crossing the North Atlantic from West to East.
• Hugo Vihlen of Homestead, Fla ., thirsted to make the Guinness Book of Records in 1993 by sailing across the Atlantic in the smallest boat, the 5-foot-6-inch " Father's Day ."
• So Vihlen took his boat to Newfoundland and eventually made the passage to England in 106 days, sleeping in a semiseated postion, losing 34 pounds and emerging from his boat " feeling kind of wobbly, " he said at the time.