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Outlook on Lifestyle Head for the cruising yachts at Buzzards Bay in June THE HERALD OUTLOOK Saturday June 17 Page SNAFU by Bruce Beattie If you happen to be on Cape Rod on June 23 and crave excitement head for Buzzards Bay for the start of the eighth annual race of cruising yachts from Massachusetts to St Davids Ber muda Entries are familyowned boats which are required to use celestial navigation only Details from Faith Thompson To participate in- another boat race that starts on that same Fri day arrange to be aboard either the Delta Queen or the Mississippi Queen in New Orleans as the two traditional steamdriven start their annual race up the Mississippi to St Louis Bookings from Delta Queen Steamboat Co 8005431949 Steamboats travelling against the Mississippis current can ad vance at a rate equivalent to about km an hour After all they were built for comfort rather than speed But the race usually proves to be exciting nevertheless as any reader of Mark Twain know Once the date for a twosteamer race had been set the beloved author wrote in Life on the Mississippi from that time for ward the whole Mississippi Valley was in a state of consuming excite ment Politics and the weather were dropped and the people talk ed only of the coming race SPEED RECORD One of the greatest such races in history was the duel in which the Lee defeated the Nat chez in a time that has never been equalled three days hours and minutes from New Orleans to St Louis The two Queens will retrace the same 1759km route although at a more leisurely pace most of the time But at a certain stretch of the river the skills of the two pilots will be tested in a 134km sprint Points gained In that event and in others such as a kiteflying com petition and a battle of the Dix ieland bands will help to decide which steamboat wins the Golden Antlers Judging is taken seriously Chief arbiter is retired US Air Force Col Barney Oldfield while one of his Judging staff is the famed ragtime scholar and performer Max Morath The Delta Queen built in may well be favored to defeat the 13yearold Mississippi Queen in the forthcoming race since she is fresh from a victory over the Belle of Louisville In a race May 3 on the Ohio River at Louisville part of the action surrounding the famous Kentucky Derby Some 800 passengers on the two steamboats each paid S to participate in that speed competition and to partake liberally of a southernstyle buffet Jahnvince Bulk Food FOR ALL YOUR BAKING NEEDS OPEN DAYS DENTURE THERAPY CLINIC AW TRENTON DT 18 CHURCH STREET GEORGETOWN ACROSS FROM LIBRARY AND CULTURAL CENTRE 8772359 of mint juleps and the like and of Dixieland jazz played by a live combo HOME OF JAZZ Jazz is as characteristic of New Orleans as is Historians tell us that the free- swinging happy and sometimes blue music originated in the racial melting pot of 19thcentury New Orleans and moved up the river via the paddlewheel steam boats Jazz was carried afar by such immortals as Kid Ory and Louts Armstrong Today Dixieland jazz still thrives in New Orleans at such spots as Preservation Hall in the French Quarter and on the New Orleansbased steamboats that still carry passengers up and down the Mississippi But its popularity long ago outgrew the confines of the Mississippi and even of North America This summers travellers to Switzerland for ex ample will find festivals of New Orleans jazz at Ascona June to July 3 and at Lugano Sept 1 to 3 both cities are in the southern Italianspeaking canton of Ticino Other major European jazz festivals this summer take place in Switzerland from July 7 to its year and in Nor way at the colorful village of JAZZ AT SEA Jazz buffs can also combine a sea voyage with their musical en joyment There are several possibilities on cruises but Royal Viking Lines Royal Viking Star Is offering a different jazz great on each of its sevenday New York- Bermuda cruises departing every Saturday until Oct Some ex amples The Jonah Jones quartet on the July sailing the Bob Norwegian Cruise Lines Nor way will hold its seventh annual floating jazz festival on her one- week Caribbean cruise sailing from Miami Oct a long list of jazz stars such as Benny Carter Joe Williams and Doc Cheatham And on the Jan 14 departure of the Norway originally the France will be Bob Erwigs Climax Jazz Band of Toronto and the legendary trombonist Spiegle still performing- at the age of 86 Major Canadian jazz festivals opening this month are in Van couver Toronto both June 23 to July and Montreal June to Julyor TRAVEL NOTEBOOK Here are notes on news of cur rent interest to travellers The 63yearold steamboat Delta King refurbished at a cost said to be million opened last week as a stationary hotel on the waterfront at Sacramento Calif In recent years it had been used as a barracks for workers at the smelter at BC Star Princess this years 62500ton addition to the fleet of Los Angelesbased Princess Cruises made her initial call to the ports of Victoria and Vancouver this 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