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Week-End Sailors L_ and their fast-growing fleet JLt's "anchors aweigh" for America's week-end sailors who are turning out this summer in greater force than ever to challenge the waves in everything from putt-putts to plush yachts. Barbers and bartenders, teachers and merchants, clerks and salesmen—people from all walks of life—now belong to the fast-growing boating fraternity, once considered the exclusive domain of the Morgans and the Vanderbilts. These Sunday skippers have one thing in common—the enjoyment and relaxation they find in cruising or sailing. Boating fever has swept the country to such an extent that there are now some 6,000,000 pleasure craft in use -—-about one for every twenty-eight persons in the United States, and more than double the number in use just ten years ago. It is estimated that close to 30,000,000 people used the waterways last year for more than just an occa- sional day afloat. This year, tens of thousands of fam- ilies will be spending their vacations aboard small boats, cruisers and even luxury yachts. Some will be sailing on lakes, rivers and bays while others will venture out on the deeper ocean waters. As more and more people have taken to the water, there have been increased demands for the higher stand- ards of safety and convenience that electronics can provide. Until recent years, marine equipment was designed primarily for large commercial ships. It was bulky and expensive. Then RCA engineers pioneered in adapting electronic gear to the needs of the small-boat owner. They put the emphasis on compact design, smart styling, and simplified operating controls. Today a wide range of electronic equipment is making pleasure craft navi- gation easier and safer. Portable Direction Finder For the outboard cruiser and sailboat, where space is at a premium, there is the lightweight, portable radio direction finder. Roughly the size of an ordinary portable radio, the direction finder does not quite produce a magic voice saying, "At the sound of the chimes, Sandy Hook will be just over your right shoulder." But it does some- thing almost as good. It enables the amateur sailor to find his way no matter what the weather. In fair weather, the skipper can spot his beacons by eye and steer a course by instinct or compass. But in fog or darkness, he finds himself in trouble. With a radio direction finder, however, he can take his bearings on radio beacons, broadcast stations and signals from radio- telephone-equipped boats and shore stations. Carleton Mitchell carried an RCA portable direction finder on his 38-foot yawl Fmisterre in winning the 1956 Newport-to-Bermuda yachting classic, the race yachtsmen call "the thrash to the onion patch." Smallest boat ever to win this blue ribbon of deep water racing on the At- lantic, the broad-beamed, gray-hulled Finisterre tri- umphed after 635 miles of hard, squall-ridden sailing. 14 RADIO AGE