Howard Hawks: the Grey Fox of Hollywood
“However, he did heed the call of fashion, and as sailing became the rage among picture folk, Hawks yielded to the urgings of his wife and bought a yacht. Athole had done considerable sailing off Long Island before coming to California, and after Hawks bought a sixty-foot Norwegian sloop (which he named, naturally enough, the Sea Hawk), Athole became a very good sailor. With a good deal more time to devote to it than her husband, who in any event preferred golfing, flying, and hunting, Athole ev...en took up boat racing. On one occasion during a race around Catalina Island, Athole’s brother Doug fell overboard, and witnesses credited Athole with saving Doug’s life, as she expertly brought the boat back around and fished him out before it was too late. Docked at San Pedro, the Sea Hawk was often taken on family outings to Catalina on weekends. Hawks was game for a while, learning the rudiments of sailing and enjoying the social side of it. But he would often get seasick and “never took to it too much,”MoreLess
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