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Cronkite was a passionate cruising man

• Dick Durham
• July 21, 2009

The American TV anchorman in full interview

The late, great American TV anchorman, Walter Cronkite, was a lifelong sailor who preferred the deck of a yacht to the glare of the TV studio. Author and journalist Pearl Duncan made a lenghty interview with the man which she sent to YM.

We have reproduced it in full here:

‘SAILBOATS, SAILING, AND THE SCIENCE OF THE SPORT: Twelve years ago, I had a 43 foot Wassail 42. It was a unique design, in that it was a yawl. It was built as a cutter, not a ketch, and my wife and I liked the cutter’s performance much better than the ketch’s, but I still wanted a split rig, so I worked with the designer, William Crealock, and we worked out the means whereby we could leave the cutter rig intact. And put a little spanker on the stern, which gave me the split rig and balanced the boat absolutely perfectly. It turned out to be a marvelous design for cruising.

The split rig, cutter rig, did very well under test. Like the cutter, the split rig of the cutter-yawl had greater facility to change sails, to adjust the amount of canvass we were going to carry to meet the conditions of the moment. It was built in 1976 and it was a delight. And it was very easy to handle. I replaced it three years ago. And now I sail a boat that is highly customized, a Sunward 48, built by Sunward Yachts of Wilmington, North Carolina. It is a 48-foot cruising ketch, designed by Al Mason, when he was at Sparkman & Stephens. It was built in 1986, and the performance is great.

It’s a heavy boat, 48,000 pounds. It lays nicely to a rough sea and yet makes good way in a light breeze. The interior, as with all Mason designs, makes maximum use of the space. We have four separate cabins: V-berths, forward, over-and-under bunks immediately aft, a single bunkroom for the crew, and the owner’s stateroom, aft. The saloon is still immense, with a table seating seven. It has all the goodies – air conditioning, microwave, plenty of cold storage space. And a near walk-in engine room.

I sail always with one other person. The boat can’t be handled alone and I hesitate to handle it alone. I’ve got a little bit of back problem and I worry about having to put too much strain on it. It doesn’t bother me so much that I don’t play a lot of singles tennis, but I am afraid of being out at sea by myself and having my back go out. So I have a full-time person aboard the boat. I call him my port captain.

When I’m at sea, I’m the captain. He’s the captain when we’re at the dock; but he takes care of the boat, handles maintenance, and delivers it. I have gotten to the point where I rather eschew the hard work, the foredeck work. I like navigation very much even on a day trip. I like to play with the loran, sepner, and the radar, and plot courses. This is what makes cruising so interesting to me. I like going to places, strange places, places where there are some navigational problems involved.

THE PLEASURES OF SAILING AND THE GIFTS OF THE COASTS AND WORLD ADVENTURES: It’s too bad that everybody can’t experience sailing. I think it is interesting seeing countries and getting down to the waterways of nations – the bays, inlets, rivers are a remarkable way to see countries. It gives a perspective you can’t get any other way. All countries come alive from the shore. I think you get a new feeling for people by being on a boat.

Every place has its own value, its own attraction as a cruising ground. I like almost anything — Long Island North, in the Northeast, on the Eastern Seaboard, has beautiful sailing. Of course we all know that lower Long Island has become less interesting in recent years because of the wind variance created by the heavy population on Long Island; winds from the east gets diverted by the heat of Long Island Sound.

From Stratford Shole on the northeast to the east, the winds are good, and sailing is marvelous and there are numerous places to go. I think it’s one of the great sailing grounds of all times. Maine of course is superb. Thousands and thousands of miles of sea islands and sea coast, marvelous bays, rivers and all the islands, just ideal, except for the fog and of course the season is short. It gets pretty cold in the winter, but otherwise, it’s good. Maybe fog is helpful in keeping down the total boating population and making it a little more comfortable for those of us who do use it.

Also of course the Caribbean; the Windward Islands have great sailing, primarily because of the prevailing winds, always out of the eastern quadrant. And since the islands are basically north and south, you can sail year-round on a beam reach. And it’s lovely getting there. It has also gotten crowded, but the world has gotten crowded.

Going down the East Coast’s Intercoastal Waterway is a beautiful experience. I did the book, South by Southeast, with 100 paintings by Ray Ellis and I described the many scenes of American life. This, my first art/coffee table book, covered the area from Baltimore to the Keys, particularly the marshlands, Georgia and South Carolina. These marshes are just gorgeous with wildlife.

The way the marshes awaken, when you are down there, you start a little before dawn. The first light. I like to do that anyway. The sawgrass rises to meet the day, standing straight up, the blades of sawgrass with dew on them sparkle. All through the marsh grass, the birds are rising, the cormorants, the seagulls, the pelicans and other marshland birds, and the egrets, stepping their way gently along the shore. As the day goes on, the marsh grass wilts a little under the evening sun. The sparkling dew forms. And a little fog rises, the morning fog, the haze, as the dew boils away. And through all of that the fishing boats: the superstructures, fishing boats, meandering through the marsh grass, captain of the sea.

It’s a scene you can’t duplicate in life. People inland enjoy the wildlife too. But the teaming wildlife along the seashore is available only to those who get out either on the seashore itself, or a boat. And this marsh area is one that is particularly interesting. You can only get there by boat. This is a land gap, an added attraction for cruising the coast.

It was preserved rather late; a lot of it has been destroyed. But we’re now preserving it fairly well. My book with Ray Ellis, North by Northeast, covered the area from Cape May to the Canadian border. Ray Ellis and I are now working on a book on the West Coast to be called, Westwind. It will be published in time for Christmas, 1990. My other book, Remembering the Moon are excerpts from my coverage of the first moon landing on the moon on July 20th, 1969.

Incidentally, the titles of the first two books, South by Southeast, and North by Northeast, are NOT compass points, as any sailor knows. I have had a lot of comment on this from my friends, but I tell them, the publisher just happens to like the ring of the names.

THE JOY OF PEOPLE AND PORTS, OF WOMEN, RELAXATION, OUTDOOR TRAVEL, AND SEEING THE WORLD: I haven’t sailed the North Coast of South America, though that’s my next major project, and I haven’t sailed Central America. I gather that’s quite fascinating. I have sailed the Swedish Archipelago and Norway, and that’s great sailing. I haven’t sailed it as much as I’d like. I have sailed the West Coast of Norway on an Iceland charter boat, a 12-meter boat, built in 1920. In the last three years we have sailed Wyntje from the Canadian border to Grenada. The summers primarily are spent in Martha’s Vineyard and the winters in the Caribbean.

All countries come alive from the shore. I think you get a new feeling for people by being on a boat. I distinguish boaters from other tourists. They recognize problems of tides and currents and winds, as they go from one shore to another, sharing a life that a lot of fishermen share. I think also, living aboard a boat, you’re resupplying, and sharing a life with the people. Clearing customs, doing things the average tourist doesn’t do. And, tourists don’t get into small fishing village and stores. Sailing is a way of getting to know people better than any other way.

I find having sailed around Scandinavia, the Pacific, Australia, Alaska, East Coast United States, and the Caribbean, I feel you really get to know the people far better. I’ve gotten spoiled. I don’t like a trip that isn’t on water.

SAILING, OUTDOORS, ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE AND LEADERSHIP: Cruising is total relaxation, even under stress, conditions which occur occasionally in sailing. The stress is of a vastly different sort from the business or communications world. And there is relaxing stress. The change, which is a form of stress, is relaxation. I like lying out in the open. I have no doubt I’ve gained from sailing. I’m sure it’s been physically very therapeutic. Some say the kind of sailing I do — cruising, is not active enough to set the muscles to work.

Sailing is a way to commune with nature. I hate the restriction of a house or office building. I am very happy camping out. I like the stars, sun, weather. Even when it’s raining, it is more comfortable to be outside than it is inside. So I like being on the deck of a boat. It gives me a sense that I can translate into the business world.

In sailing, there is obviously a command structure and a relationship of people at work, of persons; that is important on a boat. A lot of fun is made of the Captain Blygh syndrome, the guy who gets on a boat and starts giving orders to his wife and children. And obviously that can be vastly overdone. It has ruined a lot of good sailing, and a lot of good sailing relationships – probably a lot of good family relationships and relationships with friends. But, having said that, it is also just as true that it is necessary at times that one person’s word is law. The captain is the captain. People must respond to orders; when a crisis is on hand, there is no time to debate.

There are other moments in sailing to have a staff meeting and consider the course of action. I do that on my boat, when it’s a matter of deciding when one course might be less comfortable than another. I put that to a vote with my crew – which way they would like to do it. It doesn’t make any difference to me. And if we’re going to live on the boat, why not make everybody happy? So we sometimes have a democratic vote: the course to take, the route to take, or whether to sail at night or don’t.

But when the crisis comes, people have to respond to one single voice.

So you do learn something about how to handle people, how you can best give commands without creating offense. Not to be too overbearing. I think that’s all part of life and the experience is intensified when you’ve got a situation, which can be one of life or death.

A CALL FOR TEAMWORK: I put together a crew for offshore sailing. In the kind of critical sailing I’m talking about now, offshore gear can fail; this can be a tragic situation at sea at night. I’ve got a crew I’ve put together for long distance of offshore sailing, which consists of some regular stock players that I go to first. I know they can go and they are a fun crowd.

I’ve fallen into a good source of good sailors, airline pilots. And sort of my chief recruiting officer is Mike Ashford, an Eastern pilot who also owns McGarvey’s in Annapolis, the best sailors’ watering hole on the East Coast. He owns a skipjack, races in the Chesapeake Skipjack races. I sail down there every year. There’s also an explorer, a lawyer sometime restaurant operator, Brian Carey, Arctic explorer, adventurer.

LIFE ON BOARD, CRUISING WITH FAMILY AND FRIENDS AND PLANNING: My wife Mary sails with me all the time when we’re sailing inshore. She doesn’t like the offshore passages. She loves cruises. We have a long list of friends who frequently join us aboard. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Rooney.

I’m the skipper. Depending on the size of the crew, that determines what life is like aboard. It we’re going on a long offshore passage, we set up watches so that everybody shares the onerous duties, the hours people don’t like. On offshore passages, life is very pleasant. There are hours in the day when everybody’s up; early in the morning and again late in the afternoon, and in the evening for dinner. The rest of the time, part of the crew is sleeping, or up and around.

The daytime gets a little messy, some sleep and some don’t when they’re supposed to, and those who haven’t slept during the day are not quite as efficient as they ought to be at night. It’s a normal way to live. If I have enough crew, normally 7, that leaves me free to not take a watch. Then I’m up frequently during the night to do navigational chores, and as captain, make decisions if we need any. There are always two persons on deck. We overlap watches, so there is a fresh man coming up every hour. We have three watches of two people each. The crew likes short watches of two to three hours, depending on the voyage. I think that’s a better way to do it.

At night, it’s very easy to become somber. With a fresh man every hour, I know the logs are kept properly. And the crew is alert.

Wyntje, my boat, is named after the first woman who married a Cronkite in the New Amsterdam colony, November 16, 1642. The boat is in honor of all the women who made Cronkite men happy in the New World. The first boat, built in 1976, and the second, built in 1986, have been a delight.

CONCERN FOR THE EVERYMAN-ADVENTURER AND YOUTH: People you meet sailing, cruising, are a wonderful cross-section of humanity. You know they are interested in the sea. You’ve got this common bond of the sea.

I am amazed at the people who cross oceans today. I don’t think the public has any knowledge, or a general feeling, of how many people are out there crossing the ocean. It’s a lot to me to be crossing the ocean in a small boat. I think I saw a figure of 2,300 boats or something like that checking through various islands in the Caribbean last year. The singlehanders I find very hard to understand. Thirty days is a long time to be out there and it’s quite a risk, very risky business.

There are a lot of young people today in the sailing scene, the cruising scene. A lot of them have been lured by the sea. A lot of them are very bright. There’s a lot to be learned from the experience at sea. There are some jobs, but not many good jobs. Captain of a boat is a fine marvelous career; I envy those who do it.

A MAN OF THE WORLD: As a sailor, I don’t have any problems. I have felt like one of the masses. Traveling to some of the islands of the Caribbean and the Mediterranean, with me, there is no recognition factor, and I enjoy that. I know that I’m not getting special treatment. And while in some places, I’d like to have special treatment, on the other hand, it’s nice to feel that I’m getting the common touch that everybody shares.’

Pearl Duncan

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1983 Sparkman & Stephens Sunward 48

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KARMA was designed by Sparkman & Stephens for safe and comfortable bluewater cruising. Her hand laid solid fiberglass hull is over 1 thick below the waterline. Karma also has integrated and baffled fiberglass tanks which eliminates the problems associated with older metal tanks. With 400 gallons of water and 400 gallons of fuel, Karma is well suited for off shore passages. The skeg supported rudder and cut away front full keel make her very safe, stable and comfortable at sea. The center cockpit design allows for generous headroom below. The cockpit itself is very large and comfortable with deep seating and high back rests. Add to that the water tight bimini and full enclosure, you are not only comfortable at sea you are protected from the elements.

The cutter ketch combination allows easy set up for all weather conditions for a crew of two. There is plenty of room on deck to store cruising gear and the tender.

Her accommodations include a large salon with 7’ headroom, L-shaped galley with abundant storage and three refrigerator/freezer units, three staterooms and two heads. Her solid teak, mahogany and ash joinery is stunning and has been well cared for.

This particular boat is sistership to Walter Cronkite’s beloved Sunward 48, WYNTJE and was featured in the TV series Dawson’s Creek. This hull was built and completed at the Sunward Yacht facility in Wilmington, NC.

KARMA has been cruising for the past 9.5 years and her seller’s are ready for their next adventure. She set sail from Florida in 2011, and cruised approximately 20,000 miles before her arrival in San Diego, CA.

Many spare parts for all systems are included. Maintenance records are available.

Call Dea Allen, CPYB at 619-708-3287 or [email protected] for more information.

Equipment: *100 hp Westerbeke FWC engine *Westerbeke 7.7 k5 FWC generator *Winslow 6-person liferaft (needs service) *Refleks hydronic diesel heater model 2000KV with 5 gallon s/s day tank *7’ Headroom in salon *Air conditioning in salon and master cabin (needs service) *Outback FM-80 3 stage solar charge controller *Kiss high output wind generator *Bow thruster *Xantrex Freedom Marine 3000 watt inverter *Village Marine No Frills 120v watermaker, 27 gph capacity *Radar, (2) Chart Plotter displays, ComNav autopilot display, ComNav oversized hydraulic autopilot with Octopus reversing pump, ComNav multi display in salon and in cockpit for all other functions, (2) Raymarine 125 GOS antennas, Standard Horizon VHF with AIS receiver, Standard Horizon VJHF with remote mic, ICOM SSB, Pactor 3 modem. *3-Blade Luke feathering bronze prop. *Center cockpit with closing cockpit door *Topsides of deck painted with Awlgrip in 2012 *Cutaway full keep with fully encapsulated ballast in the keel and skeg hung rudder *Petit Ultima SR-40 bottom paint 3/2021 *Bronze thru hulls are arranged in two sea chests in the engine room *Nilsson electric windlass *75# Spade anchor *Secondary Plow anchor *Fortress hurricane anchor (4) 300’ 5/8” floating 3-strand shore tie lines, stored in Sunbrella bags *Jordan series drogue with dedicated chain plates on the transom *A&H adjustable dinghy davits on transom *Achilles 9’2” Hypalon ROB dinghy with Sunbrekllla cover *Yamaha 15hp 2-stroke OB *Standing rigging new in 2006 *Spinnaker *Chainplates new in 2006 *Located in San Diego near the airport and easy to see.

Additional photos and information upon request.

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Rig and Sails

Auxilary power, accomodations, calculations.

The theoretical maximum speed that a displacement hull can move efficiently through the water is determined by it's waterline length and displacement. It may be unable to reach this speed if the boat is underpowered or heavily loaded, though it may exceed this speed given enough power. Read more.

Classic hull speed formula:

Hull Speed = 1.34 x √LWL

Max Speed/Length ratio = 8.26 ÷ Displacement/Length ratio .311 Hull Speed = Max Speed/Length ratio x √LWL

Sail Area / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the power of the sails relative to the weight of the boat. The higher the number, the higher the performance, but the harder the boat will be to handle. This ratio is a "non-dimensional" value that facilitates comparisons between boats of different types and sizes. Read more.

SA/D = SA ÷ (D ÷ 64) 2/3

• SA : Sail area in square feet, derived by adding the mainsail area to 100% of the foretriangle area (the lateral area above the deck between the mast and the forestay).
• D : Displacement in pounds.

Ballast / Displacement Ratio

A measure of the stability of a boat's hull that suggests how well a monohull will stand up to its sails. The ballast displacement ratio indicates how much of the weight of a boat is placed for maximum stability against capsizing and is an indicator of stiffness and resistance to capsize.

Ballast / Displacement * 100

Displacement / Length Ratio

A measure of the weight of the boat relative to it's length at the waterline. The higher a boat’s D/L ratio, the more easily it will carry a load and the more comfortable its motion will be. The lower a boat's ratio is, the less power it takes to drive the boat to its nominal hull speed or beyond. Read more.

D/L = (D ÷ 2240) ÷ (0.01 x LWL)³

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds.
• LWL: Waterline length in feet

Comfort Ratio

This ratio assess how quickly and abruptly a boat’s hull reacts to waves in a significant seaway, these being the elements of a boat’s motion most likely to cause seasickness. Read more.

Comfort ratio = D ÷ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x Beam 1.33 )

• D: Displacement of the boat in pounds
• LOA: Length overall in feet
• Beam: Width of boat at the widest point in feet

Capsize Screening Formula

This formula attempts to indicate whether a given boat might be too wide and light to readily right itself after being overturned in extreme conditions. Read more.

CSV = Beam ÷ ³√(D / 64)

S&S design #1674.2. Based on an earlier production model called the MARLOW 48.

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The summer of cronkite, legendary network news anchor loved sailing in penobscot bay.

Walter Cronkite was known as “The Most Trusted Man in America” when he was the anchor of CBS’s network news in the 1960s and ‘70s. His sign-off “and that’s the way it was” was recognizable to millions. Cronkite refused to allow his personal beliefs to affect his job of reporting accurate news. It was his integrity and commitment to fair reporting that made him the most trusted man in America.

For me, his most endearing quality was that he loved Maine and sailing around Penobscot Bay.

If there is such a thing as an unassuming 64-foot yacht, the two-masted vessel owned by Walter Cronkite was it. While some owners turn their boats into floating palaces, Cronkite’s Wyntje was the kind of boat on which you could spill your wine and not worry about being thrown overboard.

In 1989, the year of Vinalhaven’s centennial celebration, Cronkite was asked to grand marshal of the parad. With delight, he accepted our small town’s request.

The parade consisted of fire engines, floats, vintage cars, and most of all, the proud islands residents. The marching band was made up of musicians old and young, experienced and novice, but what they lacked in harmony they made up for with heart.

Many of my family members attended the celebration. Our large gaggle gathered in front of the Star of Hope building. Cronkite as grand marshall sat high on the horse-drawn steam-powered fire pump (used between 1900-1920).

Being that our town is so small we got to enjoy the parade twice as once going through it quickly makes a U-turn at the town’s gazebo, repeating it all.

As Cronkite came by on the parade’s first pass, all 50 of our friends and family around us, in unison, waved and cheered: “Hi, Walter!” Minutes later,

on his return leg, again in unison, we waved and with warmth cried out, “Bye Walter!”

With a huge smile, Cronkite laughed, slapped his thigh, and waved back his goodbye.

It’s the small things that make up life!

—Richard Flagg

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Walter Cronkite

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American Ship Trust Award/Karl Kortum American Ship Trust Award

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Walter Cronkite (1916-2009)

History’s the most exciting story we can know. It’s our own story, after all, and bringing that story to life for people is our job. We in this society must do more to meet that challenge. – Walter Cronkite

Walter Leland Cronkite Jr., broadcast journalist and American icon, loved sailing and the lessons of the sea and used his fame and good name to help NMHS gain new members, strength, and funding so that Sea History and its stories would have ever greater reach and importance. As a National Maritime Historical Society Overseer, he signed on as chairman of the NMHS Education Initiative and helped brainstorm ideas for the future of our organization. Recipients of the NMHS Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Maritime Education benefit from the prestige and recognition his name confers. We are greatly honored that this American treasure and icon became a significant leader in the National Maritime Historical Society.

Cronkite reported many historical events from 1937 to 1981, including bombings in World War II; the Nuremberg trials; combat in the Vietnam War; the Dawson’s Field hijackings; Watergate; the Iran Hostage Crisis; and the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, civil rights pioneer Martin Luther King Jr., and Beatles musician John Lennon. He was also known for his extensive coverage of the U.S. space program, from Project Mercury to the Moon landings to the Space Shuttle. He was the only non-NASA recipient of an Ambassador of Exploration award.

Cronkite, born in St. Joseph, Missouri, began writing news for his high school paper, worked as an intern at the Houston Post , and attended journalism school at the University of Texas while working as state capitol reporter for the Houston Press and Scripps-Howard. He dropped out of journalism school to report full time, joining United Press in 1937 and becoming a war correspondent a few years later.

Cronkite cultivated a taste for adventure and in the late 1950s, competed as an amateur race car driver with the Lotus team at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., and for the Lancia team at Sebring, Fla. Once he became an anchorman, CBS persuaded him to give up car racing, so he took up a new sport, sailing: Cronkite was an adventurous sailor who helmed a succession of sailboats named Wyntje (pronounced WIN-tee) and named for the first woman to marry a Cronkite in the New Amsterdam colony in 1642, according to Cronkite lore. Cronkite enjoyed day-sailing offshore all along the East Coast; sailed winters in the Caribbean; and visited some exotic sailing locales, including Scandinavia, Australia, and Alaska.

Cronkite was presented with numerous awards, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom by former President Jimmy Carter in 1981. He received the S. Roger Horchow Award for Greatest Public Service by a Private Citizen, four Peabody awards for excellence in broadcasting, and the Paul White Award for lifetime achievement from the Radio Television Digital News Association. He was inducted into the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame and received the Four Freedoms Award for the Freedom of Speech. He received the Ischia International Journalism Award, and the Rotary National Award for Space Achievement’s Corona Award in recognition of a lifetime of achievement in space exploration. He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and became the first non-astronaut to receive NASA’s Ambassador of Exploration Award.

I first met Walter Cronkite on July 3, 1976, when Operation Sail was in New York Harbor in its full glory, preparing for the Fourth of July Parade of Sail. Later, in 1989, I spent two weeks with Walter and Betsy Cronkite as guests aboard the US Coast Guard Barque Eagle , sailing from London to Leningrad. While crossing the Baltic Sea, one of the officers asked Walter if he would address the cadets. He replied that he didn’t believe these young people would know who he was anymore, since he had been retired for ten years, but he was, of course, willing. As it turned out, he ended up doing four sessions because they all wanted a chance to hear him speak. Walter Cronkite was always very human and accessible to everyone. He never considered himself a celebrity… What you saw on television was who he was in real life. – Howard Slotnick, NMHS Chairman Emeritus and Trustee

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Sailing with legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite

One windy afternoon I was leaning into a shaky ladder, scraping blistered paint off a second-story window frame in Orleans, when the kitchen phone rang.

“He says it’s Walter Cronkite.”

This meant my friend Tom, who would say he was anyone — Jerry Garcia, Muhammad Ali, Mother Theresa. I backpedaled down.

“Wally, is this the way it is?” I asked, riffing off Cronkite’s famous sign-off, ‘And that’s the way it is…’

Then came the sonorous cadence Americans trusted more than any other. “I’m trying to reach Seth Rolbein. Have I done so?”

“Uhh, yes, Mr. Cronkite. I thought you were a friend playing a practical joke.”

He guffawed, explained he was calling from his Martha’s Vineyard home, he’d seen a magazine expose I had written and appreciated its execution.

“Huge compliment,” I stammered. “I think the fellow did think I was trying to execute him, actually.”

He guffawed again. “I am inquiring as to whether you might have the inclination to voyage over to the Vineyard on Saturday and spend the day sailing, should wind and weather allow.”

“Wind and weather be damned, I’ll be there,” I told him.

He opened the door to his handsome home, blue eyes twinkling under the bushiest of eyebrows, gray hair askew, jowls sagging in a comfortable way, the person who had kept American families company for decades, who told us JFK had been shot, who narrated as we set foot on the moon.

“We picked a good day for a sail,” he intoned. I couldn’t shake the feeling that he was reporting, not just making small talk, and would identify his meteorological sources next.

“I believe you,” I said.

Before long we were gunk-holing around the island aboard his 48-foot, custom sailboat “Wyntje” (named after a Dutch ancestor). I supplied brawn while reveling in the world’s best anchorman and narrator at the helm; Edgartown Harbor wide shot, slow pan to Walter, tight shot of eyes bluer than the water, slow pull back for the latest brief.

“Since I’ve stopped doing the news, it’s been quite interesting to pick and choose my projects,” he said. “There is one major remaining goal I have — go into outer space.”

“The final frontier!”

“I am not Captain Kirk,” he smiled.

There was a moment I much wanted to ask him about, so did. Early 1968, after a visit to Vietnam, as our military leaders and President Johnson were insisting that victory was just around the corner, he read this commentary to the nation:

“To say that we are closer to victory today is to believe, in the face of the evidence, the optimists who have been wrong in the past. To suggest we are on the edge of defeat is to yield to unreasonable pessimism. To say that we are mired in stalemate seems the only realistic, yet unsatisfactory, conclusion.”

“No self-respecting reporter could have come back with any other conclusion,” he said. “I certainly wasn’t the only one who saw what was happening.”

But he was the only one who could prompt President Johnson to turn to an aide and say, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost Middle America.” Johnson announced that he would not seek re-election a few weeks later.

Our day ended well. On my way home I mused about how fitting it was for a sailor to be an “anchorman.” He wasn’t “talent”; that cynical word wouldn’t surface for years. He was a grapple in hard bottom, hooking us in place. He held the national line taut.

Attributing such importance to a guy on TV sounds ridiculous now. Then again, had Walter Cronkite still been at the national desk, it never would have become possible to accuse the press of being “enemies of the people,” or that journalists trying to seek out and explain facts are “fake.”

He didn’t live to offer perspective on this, passing in 2009, proof yet again that no one gets out of here alive, not even Walter Cronkite.

As for the Wyntje, Cronkite donated her to a nonprofit that teaches young people teamwork, discipline, and mutual respect, from the decks of a beautiful sailing ship.

And that’s the way it was.

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Sailors always have been pioneers of change. For centuries, they were the lead agents in bringing the world closer together. Until the last century, we traveled by ship, and we traveled everywhere on the sea’s broad highway.

My own life as a sailor began in earnest in 1960, when I decided that my avocation of racecar driving no longer suited my lifestyle or my family commitments. So I learned to sail. A few years later, I bought, on impulse, my first sailboat at a New York Boat show-a 22-foot sloop-and began exploring the sea and the shorelines of America. There were several more sailboats after the first, each a bit larger than the last, and all named Wyntje in honor of the first woman to marry a Cronkite– a distant ancestor in the NewAmsterdam colony in 1642. Nothing compared to the experience of sailing, which brought out the Walter Mitty in me. In the winter, I would weigh anchor for the Caribbean, and in the summertime, my wife, Betsy, and I would set sail from our home on Martha’s Vineyard to visit familiar and favorite haunts along the northeastern sea coast.

What began as a hobby quickly evolved into a passion. In my book Around America , I described sailing from Cape May to New York. “The sailor who rounds Sandy Hook for the first time without losing a heartbeat or two,” I wrote, “has no romance in his soul.” Thus, my familiarity with the last stretch of the journey in each Operation Sail was already rich by the time I came to know its organizers.

Indeed, Sandy Hook is the hinge to America’s front door, and the approach to New York Harbor is one of my favorite passages on water. For more than a century before the Statue of Liberty’s torch was lit, the nation’s oldest lighthouse on Sandy Hook blinked out a welcome to arriving vessels and millions of immigrants. Fort Hancock nearby is almost as old, built as the first in a string of defenses to protect New York from the British in the War of 1812. The most important battery in that string was built at the Narrows, now spanned by the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, the starting point for every Operation Sail parade of ships.

I first came on board in 1976 for the Bicentennial Operation Sail, and for many years thereafter, I served as an advisor to the organization. During that event, which I dubbed “the grandest birthday party in the history of the world,” I broadcast programs from aboard the USCGC Eagle and managed radio communications with the other vessels. My fondest memories of that celebration are of the ardent crowds. Millions of spectators, 10 to 20 deep and shoulder-to-shoulder, cheered from the shorelines of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Staten Island, and New Jersey. Scores more from around the world watched the occasion on television, enthralled as an armada of the world’s great square-riggers paraded in review. In the calm of that day, the glorious crafts’ bow waves purled in barely a whisper, but together those whispers rose into a chorus that sang of the goodwill and global fellowship of the international sailing community.

Each of the subsequent sails was bigger and grander than the last. Operation Sail 1986, which paid tribute to the centenary of our Lady Liberty and to the principles for which she stands, drew more than six million people to the waterfronts of New York on a resplendent Fourth of July weekend. Broadcast across the globe, the image of sailors gathered together from around the world, united by the simple brotherhood of the sea, brought inestimable and enduring benefits.

In 1992, we gave special emphasis to the Age of Discovery-that era when ships brought worlds together. In the 1400s, when the voyages of the Age of Discovery began, nations and cultures were insulated, unaware of the ways of life beyond their borders, wary even of their neighbors. Today, we are all discoverers, as people from almost every nation on earth now walk the streets of every other nation.

The millennial Operation Sail was another memorable event, with more than 35 countries represented. The International Naval Review that year promised to be the most spectacular to date, but a torn Achilles tendon kept me from appearing on the reviewing aircraft carrier, the now-retired USS John F. Kennedy, or “Big John,” as she is more affectionately known. Nothing, however, could prevent me from serving as a trustee and honorary chairman. I was hooked on the thrill of Operation Sail, the exhilaration I felt at the sight of so many seagoing marvels gliding up the Hudson, their pennants aflutter, their acres of sails taut with wind or clewed up so that the young sailors manning them could line the yardarms in a show of symmetry.

The old sailing ships now are important sites of learning, as many actively serve as training vessels for the next generation of mariners or provide character-building experiences for young men and women around the world by introducing them to the joys and rigors of sailing. I saw this at work firsthand as chair of the National Maritime Education Initiative, which seeks, through modern sail training, to preserve the relevance of the glorious vessels of a bygone age and to further the legacy of our maritime heritage.

We may not yet be one peaceful world or even a world that agrees on many things, but Operation Sail celebrates the fact that we have, indeed, become one world. Ships made this possible, and it seems fitting to commemorate their contribution with a harbor full of sails and sailors.

Operation Sail reminds us that ships brought so many of our ancestors to the Americas, brought cultures and commodities across oceans, brought us to that critical pitch of communication and commerce that has made today’s global awareness possible. Operation Sail has allowed us to see clearly how vessels from all lands — the voyaging canoes of Polynesia, the junks and sampans of Asia, the dhows of the Arab world, the barques and full-riggers of Europe and America — connected and transformed the world.

The world today seems smaller in its distances but greater in its possibilities. It still offers wide horizons and fresh landfalls to us all.

-Walter Cronkite

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A tribute to Walter Cronkite

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A Tribute to Walter Cronkite You were there when we needed you, In those dark day?s when everything around us seemed to be falling down on us. You gave us a reason to go on in this uncertain world we live in. Walter we will miss you and you?re steady reassuring voice very much. You?ll be remembered, Mike  

Ahoy Mike, Walter Cronkite was a trused news anchor, and a fellow sailor. When his last yacht, "WYNTJE", was being built at Sunward Yachts, Wilmington, NC I had the honor of being able to take a quick tour of it! Solidly built and beautiful. Thanks for honoring him! Fair weather! David  

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Truman and Johnson Also Stepped Aside, but ‘the Circumstances Are Quite Different’

The candidates who secured the Democratic nomination after the two presidents dropped out would go on to lose the election. But historians say political history doesn’t necessarily repeat itself.

By Richard Fausset

• July 21, 2024

In the last 75 years, only two Democratic presidents, Harry S. Truman and Lyndon B. Johnson, decided during an election year not to run again, surprising the nation by announcing that they would allow fresh candidates to vie for their party’s nomination.

In both cases, the Democrats who became the nominees — Adlai Stevenson, then the governor of Illinois, and Hubert Humphrey, then the vice president — lost the general election to Republicans.

The momentous decisions by Truman, in March 1952, and Johnson, in March 1968, to take themselves out of the game may offer only limited insight into how President Biden’s decision to step aside will reshape the race, and history, given how different the political backdrop was in the early 1950s and late 1960s.

Among Democrats, “worries about history repeating are certainly causing concern,” said Tim Naftali, a presidential historian and faculty scholar at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. “But the fact of the matter is, history doesn’t really repeat.”

Today, he added, “the circumstances are quite different.”

Truman, who was 67 when he decided not to seek another term, and Johnson, who was 59, withdrew from their respective races in the middle of primary season, as they struggled to find a way to end grinding, unpopular wars. For Truman, it was Korea. For Johnson, it was Vietnam.

Mr. Truman had ascended to the presidency after Franklin D. Roosevelt’s death in 1945, and had won a close election in 1948. By 1952, his popularity had dropped to a record low, in part because of the U.S. military’s involvement in Korea and corruption scandals in his administration. That helped nudge him to announce, on March 29, that he would not seek a third term. (Truman was not subject to the 22nd Amendment, which established presidential term limits in 1951, because of a grandfather clause.)

Truman’s approval numbers in January 1951 had fallen to 23 percent , compared to Mr. Biden’s current approval rating of 38.5 percent. And yet, much like in 2024, it was inconceivable for some in Truman’s inner circle to imagine anyone else securing the nomination.

“Boss, you’re going to have to run in ’52,” one of Truman’s closest advisers, Harry Vaughan, said to Truman at one point, according to the historian David McCullough’s 1992 biography of Truman. “Who else is there?”

“We’ll get someone,” Truman answered.

For Johnson, trouble came early in the election year of 1968, first with the Tet offensive, in which North Vietnamese and Vietcong combatants launched surprise attacks on South Vietnamese and U.S. forces beginning early on the morning of Jan. 31. Less than a month later, Walter Cronkite aired a CBS special report from Vietnam, opining that the war would end in “stalemate.” It was widely acknowledged as a serious blow to Johnson and the war effort, not least by Johnson himself.

At the end of a speech on March 31, Johnson told the country he would neither seek nor accept his party’s nomination for re-election.

Unlike Mr. Biden and his family, who for weeks have insisted that he was fit for the job and eager to serve another term, Truman and Johnson expressed doubts about the wisdom of staying on as president. Both were significantly influenced by their wives, who wanted them to leave the job.

“In ’52, Bess Truman wanted Harry to go back, wanted them to go back to Missouri. They did their public service,” said Douglas Brinkley, a presidential historian and professor at Rice University. “And Lady Bird Johnson thought her husband had been sick, with a heart attack and high blood pressure.”

In 1952, Democrats nominated Stevenson, the Illinois governor, to be their candidate. He was defeated in a landslide by the Republican, Dwight D. Eisenhower, the U.S. Army general.

In 1968, Vice President Hubert Humphrey won the Democratic nomination but was defeated by Richard M. Nixon.

It is impossible, of course, to say whether Truman or Johnson would have fared better if they had stuck with it. But even as incumbents, they would have faced serious challenges. Eisenhower was a revered hero of World War II, and in 1952 there was a sense, even among some Democrats, that the Democratic Party had been in power for too long. Roosevelt’s and Truman’s combined time in office spanned two decades.

In 1968, Vietnam had badly fractured the Democratic Party, and George Wallace, the Alabama segregationist, ended up siphoning away many Southern Democrats in the general election as a third-party nominee.

“Each election,” Mr. Brinkley said, “has a different tone and tenor.”

After leaving the White House in 1953, Truman moved back to his hometown, Independence, Mo. He died in 1972. Johnson returned to his Texas ranch and died in 1973.

Richard Fausset, based in Atlanta, writes about the American South, focusing on politics, culture, race, poverty and criminal justice. More about Richard Fausset

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He wrote in his 1996 autobiography, A Reporter’s Life, that sailing was a more “family-oriented sport that I should substitute for racing,” but “there has never been anything as exhilarating as driving at speed in competition.”

Cronkite, who acknowledged that he had read plenty of books about the sea, didn’t know the first thing about sailing when he began on a Sunfish in the late 1940s. But he was hooked.

“Sailing for me, though, has satisfied many urges. For one thing, it feeds the Walter Mitty in me, the inner heroism with which James Thurber endowed his unforgettable character,” he wrote.

“I never sail from harbor without either a load of tea for Southampton or orders from the admiral to pursue that villain Long John Silver and his rapacious crew,” he wrote. “I love the challenge of the open sea, the business of confronting Mother Nature and learning to live compatibly with her, avoiding if possible her excesses but always being prepared to weather them.”

Cronkite, who became an accomplished ocean sailor, told a B altimore Sun reporter in a 2006 interview that he didn’t consider any boat that he owned christened “until it fully toured up and down the Chesapeake Bay.”

His last boat, the two-masted 64-foot Hinckley sailing yacht Wyntje (pronounced win-tee) was named for the first woman to marry a Cronkite in 1642 in the New Amsterdam colony. It had a full-time crew of two.

During summers, the Wyntje was docked off Edgartown on Martha’s Vineyard, where the broadcaster had a summer home for more than 30 years.

Summer sailing day trips, with Cronkite at the helm, were to Nantucket or Newport, R.I., while longer voyages explored the rocky coast of Maine, with Camden Harbor a favorite destination.

In the fall and spring, he enjoyed sailing between New York City and Annapolis. Tortola, in the British Virgin Islands, was the vessel’s winter home, before returning in the spring to northern waters.

Locally, one of Cronkite’s favorite ports was Annapolis, where he became friends with Mike Ashford, a former Eastern Airlines pilot and sailor who opened McGarvey’s Saloon and Oyster Bar in 1975.

In an interview some years ago, Cronkite told a reporter that McGarvey’s was the “best sailors’ watering hole on the East Coast.”

“We met at a fundraiser years ago. Walter and Betsy were the celebrity couple, and we just hit it off. We discovered we had a lot of the same interests in boats, books and drinks,” Ashford said in an interview the other day.

“And we’ve sailed together for more than 35 years, and it’s been lots of fun. When he signed the contract for his last boat, he did it on my dining room table,” said Ashford, who traveled to New York City on Thursday to attend Cronkite’s funeral and say a few words at the invitation of his family.

“Walter loved sharing the experience of sailing. He loved getting cold and wet and knocked about at times. He could never understand why people didn’t see the fun in that,” Ashford said, laughing.

“I remember one time in an Annapolis-Bermuda race, we went through one of the biggest storms I had ever been in. One of the boats went down, but we made it through,” he said.

Ashford said his friend loved autumn sailing on the Chesapeake, when the Eastern Shore was dressed in fall colors and flocks of geese and ducks wheeled overhead on their southern migrations.

“Walter loved being at the helm or below navigating, calling out headings or listening to bells,” Ashford said.

Once back on land, Cronkite set sail for his friend’s saloon, where he sat on his favorite corner stool sipping a Scotch and water or a frosty glass of beer while eating a burger and talking sailing.

“He liked the crowd at McGarvey’s and talking about sailing. People treated him just as another sailor, and I was proud of that,” Ashford said. “He really was hard to get to sit still for very long. He had lots of energy and wanted to either be sailing or out in boatyards looking at boats.”

He recounts the often-told tale about the broadcaster’s menu dilemma, when he wasn’t sure whether he wanted a steak or a bowl of chili, so he ordered both.

“He dumped the chili on the steak, and for a while we had the Cronkite chili steak on the menu. Only one person ever ordered it, so we quietly dropped it,” he said, laughing.

Cronkite often stayed with Ashford. The two friends would swap sea tales while enjoying bourbon and puffing on cigars.

“He always loved sharing good fellowship,” Ashford said.

“There is nothing more satisfying than dropping anchor in an otherwise deserted cove just before sunset, of pouring that evening libation and, with a freshly roasted bowl of popcorn, lying back as the geese and ducks and loons make your acquaintance and the darkness slowly descends to complement the silence,” Cronkite wrote.

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The longtime Yorkville home of ‘the most trusted man in America,’ Walter Cronkite is currently listed for sale at $7.7 million. The 4,000-square-foot property was home to the CBS news presenter who is remembered for breaking some of the biggest stories of the twentieth century – including the moon landing, the Watergate scandal, and JFK’s assassination.

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Walter purchased the quintessential brownstone for $40,000 shortly after moving to New York City in the early 1950s. He remained in the home with his wife Mary Cronkite and his three children until they sold the property in 1999.

It is certainly easy to see why Walter never parted ways from this nineteenth-century brownstone. The classic urban kingdom stands tall above Manhattan’s prestigious upper-east side, neighboring Carl Schurz Park on a tree-kissed street. Beyond the home’s light wood door, the elegance continues throughout its four bedrooms, six bathrooms, and large living and dining space. 

Sophisticated remnants of the property's rich heritage are shown through period features throughout its four stories – including aesthetic plaster ceilings, a large fireplace, and several Juliet balconies on the third floor. 

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The master bedroom is also complete with two stylish dressing rooms with an abundance of room to store the latest season’s fashions from Fifth Avenue nearby.

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When Walter Cronkite sold the property at the turn of the millennium, the current owner vowed to modernize the home whilst accentuating these historical features. They renovated the sun-drenched kitchen, which leads to the contemporary exercise room and landscaped garden through alluring French doors. 

Despite its urban garden space – that is the perfect place for a mid-summer party in Manhattan’s most glamorous district – homeowners don’t need to worry about finding a grassy patch to enjoy the city’s sunshine. Carl Schurz Park is a five-minute hop from the property, while Central Park is less than 20 minutes walk away. But we don’t need any more convincing to pick up the keys to this piece of Victorian haven. 

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Walter Cronkite’s home, located at 519 East 84th St, is currently listed with Thomas Wexler of Leslie J. Garfield in their Manhattan office.  

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Long Lake, October 2016 COMMENTS 1976 Westsail Westsail 42 sailboat for sale in Outside United States 1976. 42'. 13'. 5'7'. Outside United States. $75,000. Description: The main photo is a shot from the start of the Marion-Bermuda Race, with owner and famous US newscaster, Walter Cronkite at the helm! The Westsail company custom built this 42 for Walter, and by the particular details and superb joinerwork, they did a very good job. Cronkite was a passionate cruising man The late, great American TV anchorman, Walter Cronkite, was a lifelong sailor who preferred the deck of a yacht to the glare of the TV studio. Author and journalist Pearl Duncan made a lenghty interview with the man which she sent to YM. We have reproduced it in full here: Twelve years ago, I had a 43 foot Wassail 42. 1976 Westsail westsail 42 The Westsail 42 like its smaller 32 foot sibling was offered for sale as fully completed boats or as kits for owners to complete. The original list price of the Westsail 42 was $130,000 by comparison a hull/deck kit and hull/deck/ballast/rudder kit went for $20,000 and $30,000 respectively. Rigs options were available in both ketch and cutter ... Walter Cronkite's weathered 64-foot yacht is a blend of high-brow and If there is such a thing as an unpretentious 64-foot yacht, the two-masted vessel owned by Walter Cronkite is it. While some owners turn their boats into floating jewel boxes, Cronkite's Wynt… 1983 Sparkman & Stephens Sunward 48 This particular boat is sistership to Walter Cronkite's beloved Sunward 48, WYNTJE and was featured in the TV series Dawson's Creek. This hull was built and completed at the Sunward Yacht facility in Wilmington, NC. The summer of Cronkite The summer of Cronkite. Walter Cronkite at the helm. Walter Cronkite was known as "The Most Trusted Man in America" when he was the anchor of CBS's network news in the 1960s and '70s. His sign-off "and that's the way it was" was recognizable to millions. Cronkite refused to allow his personal beliefs to affect his job of reporting ... Walter Cronkite Walter Leland Cronkite Jr., broadcast journalist and American icon, loved sailing and the lessons of the sea and used his fame and good name to help NMHS gain new members, strength, and funding so that Sea History and its stories would have ever greater reach and importance. As a National Maritime Historical Society Overseer, he signed on as ... Sailing with legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite Sailing with legendary anchorman Walter Cronkite. Walter Cronkite takes the helm of The USS Constitution in this file photo. One windy afternoon I was leaning into a shaky ladder, scraping ... Walter Cronkite's Dream of Sailing the World When Kathy was little, her dad, Walter Cronkite, taught her to sail, and though he now has a 43-foot yacht named Winty, she still enjoys puttering around on ... Cronkite Gives Sailboat to Youth Program Walter Cronkite, for 50 years a sage of American journalism and himself an old man of the sea, has given his custom-built sailing yacht to an organization that helps troubled teens learn the art and discipline of sailing. Remarks by Walter Cronkite There were several more sailboats after the first, each a bit larger than the last, and all named Wyntje in honor of the first woman to marry a Cronkite- a distant ancestor in the NewAmsterdam colony in 1642. Nothing compared to the experience of sailing, which brought out the Walter Mitty in me. Located in San Diego. This particular boat is sistership to Walter Located in San Diego. This particular boat is sistership to Walter Cronkite's beloved Sunward 48, WYNTJE and was featured in the TV series Dawson's Creek. Walter Cronkite On Wyntje American broadcast journalist Walter Cronkite steers his yawl-rigged Westsail 42 sailboat named 'Wyntje' , 1979. A tribute to Walter Cronkite A Tribute to Walter Cronkite You were there when we needed you, In those dark day?s when everything around us seemed to be falling down on us. You gave us a reason to go on in this uncertain world we live in. Walter we will miss you and you?re steady reassuring voice very much... Donald Trump merchandise selling at RNC; Arizona 'fake elector' sells T Donald Trump T-shirts and hats for sale by Anthony Montgomery at the RNC (Republican National Convention) on July 15 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. ... Cronkite News is produced by the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. Staff members are listed here. 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