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First annual regattas have been a boon to Harvard sailors this spring. Just three weeks ago at Annapolis a Harvard came from behind to win the first annual Kennedy Memorial Regatta.
The heavies did not use their Swiss-designed Stampfil shell at Navy because the shall wouldn't have arrived back from Annapolis until Tuesday, depriving the crew of two days' practice this week. Although the shorter Stampfil is not appreciably waster than the traditional American shell, the Crimson prefers it...
Not to be outclassed by the heavy-weights, the varsity lightweight crew also put on quite a show Saturday by smashing Navy. Nearly seven lengths and more than 25 seconds separated the lightweight boat from the Middies in a race at Annapolis.
And at Annapolis, the JV lights defeated Navy by five lengths in a time of 7:25.3, almost 20 seconds better than the Middies' varsity time. The Yardling lightweight crew won in 7:14.4, but the absence of a strong headwind, which slowed both the varsity and JV boats, apparently...
The Treatment. A Texas-born Annapolis graduate (class of '28), Raborn started out in World War II as an aviator, later became executive officer of the flattop Hancock. When a kamikaze pilot plowed into the Hancock's flight deck off the coast of Japan in April 1945, Raborn...