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On February 1, 2004 CHRISTIAN W. J. MAST, beloved husband of the late Minnie H. (nee Murry) Mast, devoted father of Richard Mast, and his wife Sandra, loving grandfather of Shawn and Chris Mast, great-grandfather of Emily and Hunter Mast, dear brother of Henry Mast and Ester Maranto. Relatives and friends are invited to call at the Schimunek Funeral Home Inc., 9705 Belair Rd. (Perry Hall) on Monday and Tuesday from 3 to 5 and 7 to 9 P.M. where a funeral service will be held on Wednesday, 11 A.M. Interment Belair Memorial Gardens.

One of our articles has quoted a gentleman saying "jerry-rigged," and of course we let that stand. Our job is to report what people do and say; making them look good is a flack's task.  But if you wish to be precise, you will observe a distinction between jury-rigged  and jerry-built , even though the two terms are frequently confused.  Any thing that is jury-rigged  is an improvised solution to a problem. It's originally a nautical expression, deriving, the Oxford English Dictionary says, from jury-mast , a temporary mast put up to replace one that has broken off or been swept away.

On October 3, 2003, John R. Mast, beloved husband of the late Anna N. Mast, devoted father of John, Rodger, Jack, Robert, and Chris Mast and Sharon Freund, brother of Chris and Henry Mast, and Esther Maranto. Also survived by 17 grandchildren and 3 great-grandchildren A funeral service willl be held at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories-Parkville on Monday 10am. Interment Holly Hill Memorial Gardens. Visiting Saturday 3-5 & 7-9pm and Sunday 3-5 & 7-9pm.

MayorStephanie Rawlings-Blake's office recently issued a press release applauding the restoration and preservation of the Baltimore Battle Monument honoring the sacrifices of Baltimore's citizens through the War of 1812. But overlooking the Inner Harbor there is another memorial, one dedicated to the Pride of Baltimore and to four adventuresome crew members lost at sea on May 14, 1986 - captain, engineer, carpenter and deck hand. Eight crew members were rescued after four days adrift in one life raft.

On May 14, 2006, HENRY AMBROSE MAST beloved husband of the late Elizabeth Reed Mast; loving father of Dora Noreen Judy, Marion Lavonne Stumpf and Henry Arnold Mast; dear son of the late Samuel and Grace Mast (nee Bayne); devoted brother of Esther K. Maranto; cherished grandfather of nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories - Parkville on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. with a funeral service Thursday 10 a.m. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Rick Mast turned his hat sideways, allowed his tongue to loll out of his mouth and then in a voice reminiscent of Gomer Pyle allowed, "I'm just an old Southern race car driver."The sophisticated Indianapolis Motor Speedway had never seen anything like this. The Good Old Boys revved their engines and stormed into the record books yesterday, with Mast, a rural Virginia farm boy, leading the charge.Mast set the sixth track record of the day for stock cars, and it stood up, as his Ford roared around this 2.5-mile super speedway at 172.414 mph to earn the No. 1 starting position for tomorrow's inaugural Brickyard 400.He was the 14th man on the track and he beat six-time Winston Cup champion Dale Earnhardt for the No. 1 starting position by .688 mph.Both Earnhardt and Mast "about cried" yesterday morning when they pulled the 13th and 14th qualifying positions.

Douglas Moody Mast was an avid fisher, enjoying his favorite pastime throughout the United States, in Canada and the U.S. Virgin Islands. The Severna Park man was fishing alone on the Chesapeake Bay in his 23-foot, stern-drive cruiser Free Lunch on Wednesday when he died of a heart attack. He was 58. "Because of his heart problems, Douglas wasn't allowed to go fishing by himself," his wife, Donna Jean Welch-Mast, said yesterday. "But men, they never listen to you." Mrs. Welch-Mast said she and her husband bought their boat about three years ago and changed its name to Free Lunch a year later because "when we would go out fishing, we always thought that somebody would get a free lunch - either us if we caught something or [the fish]

EF Education, the women's team from Sweden that was dismasted in the Whitbread Round the World Race, will step a new mast in Ushuaia, Argentina, and complete Leg 5 under sail.Race officials estimate the women's team will arrive in Sao Sebastiao, Brazil, on March 10, four days before the start of Leg 6 to Fort Lauderdale.Silk Cut, the British team that was dismasted on this leg, has taken on diesel fuel in Ushuaia and is motoring to Braazil with a skeleton crew.EF Education team officials said the decision to sail to Sao Sebastiao was made after they learned the men's team would use their engine.

SYDNEY, Australia - With the start of Leg 4 of the Whitbread Round the World Race just four days away, Chessie Racing's shore crew has been busy reinforcing the mast below the deck.The aluminum mast, identical to those aboard Innovation Kvaerner and Swedish Match, which were badly buckled by excessive compression during Leg 3, has been strengthened by 10 x 6 x 1/4-inch steel straps, fixed to the port and starboard sides just above the step.Although Chessie's mast showed only minimal signs of compression stress during Leg 3 with concave and convex dishing between the deck-head and the heel of the spar, the work was undertaken as a precaution.

AUCKLAND, New Zealand -- Lawyers for Italy's Prada America's Cup team are gathering evidence for a possible challenge over the legality of the carbon-fiber racing masts used by rival AmericaOne. Prada believes AmericaOne may have violated Article 17 of the America's Cup protocol, which specifically forbids "shared knowledge." The suggestion is that three American syndicates, AmericaOne, Stars and Stripes and Young America, which all had their masts built by the same company in Nevada, may have benefited by sharing various design concepts.

At a show known nationally for exhibiting the latest, fastest and most luxurious sailboats hitting the market, a vessel that can skim the surface on two toothpick-like, fiberglass extensions may sound more fitting for a sci-fi movie. The International Moth, a modified version of the popular Australian boat, will make its American debut at the 37th annual U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis. The show will run from Thursday to Oct. 9 in Annapolis Harbor, and the 35th annual U.S. Powerboat Show follows: Oct. 12 to 15. Australian Rohan Veal, a champion Moth sailor, will promote the boat.

On May 14, 2006, HENRY AMBROSE MAST beloved husband of the late Elizabeth Reed Mast; loving father of Dora Noreen Judy, Marion Lavonne Stumpf and Henry Arnold Mast; dear son of the late Samuel and Grace Mast (nee Bayne); devoted brother of Esther K. Maranto; cherished grandfather of nine grandchildren and two great-grandchildren. Friends may call at the family owned Evans Chapel of Memories - Parkville on Wednesday, May 17, 2006 3-5 and 7-9 p.m. with a funeral service Thursday 10 a.m. Interment Gardens of Faith Cemetery.

When you look at the Chesapeake Bay on a warm summer day, chances are you will see thousands of tiny white triangles powering sailboats through the waves. Most don't think twice about those triangles - where they came from or how they were designed. But sails on a boat can be as complex as wings on an airplane. The shape of the sail is nuanced, and tiny changes can radically alter the way wind propels the craft. And, although computer-assisted designs have made the industry far more technology-dependent than in the past, the sails are still made (or at least finished)

WASHINGTON -- A female midshipman tearfully described yesterday sexually explicit remarks made by a Naval Academy professor on a training cruise last summer during the first day of his court-martial on charges of sexual harassment. The midshipman, junior Samantha Foxton, paused when she was asked what Lt. Bryan Black said to her and at least one other midshipman Aug. 9. Tears welled up in her eyes. She then testified that Black made a reference to male arousal to describe his admiration for battleships, and asked if they had a similar effect on her, referring to her breasts.

Jerry's Kids are doing without. Same goes for Baltimore police and firefighters. Hurricane Katrina victims have tugged so hard on America's heartstrings that fundraisers for other causes are suddenly shifting focus to benefit storm survivors. So when the group that runs the Pride of Baltimore II announced a "Raise the Rig" campaign for the ship after both masts collapsed this week, the timing was very awkward. "It isn't ideal, is it?" said Carol L. Hirschburg, a board member for Pride of Baltimore Inc., a nonprofit organization that operates the state-owned vessel.

Even when your boat sustains a direct hit by lightning, it's unlikely anybody on board will get hurt, according to research done by Chuck Fort, an associate editor at a newsletter put out by BoatU.S. Marine Insurance. After reviewing 998 lightning-related claims submitted to the insurance company in the past five years, Fort found that nobody had died and only "a handful" of people had been seriously hurt when lightning damaged their boats. "The people who are injured are in open boats - runabouts and bass boats," Fort said.

ST. MARY'S CITY -- It felt like a bad idea to be out sailing Friday night on the Chesapeake Bay. As SchockaRoo -- and its 63-foot mast -- raced from Annapolis toward the mouth of the Potomac, lightning flashed and fat, cold raindrops splattered onto the deck. "Don't touch anything metal," shouted Paul Susie, 38, the boat's captain, who was grasping an aluminum tiller extension. Heeding his warning was easier said than done on a deck covered with metal fixtures -- from the stanchions holding up safety lines, to the cleats, to that large rod holding up the sails.