Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...accounts for Bus's discomfiture the day when he was 15 and a lass named Ethel crewed for him in a nip-and-tuck race. "The finish was so close I couldn't tell who had won," Bus remembers. "The other fellow called over to the committee boat to find out the results, but I couldn't hear what they told him. So I yelled 'Nice race!' And when he answered Thank you,' I assumed he had won. Next thing I knew, Ethel was standing up, shaking her fist at the committee boat...
...topnotch helmsman and naval architect; and Shields-the very man who had introduced the International to the U.S. 14 years before.-Bus beat them all-that year, the next, the next, the next, the next, the next, the next, and the next. Since the Internationals are one-design boats, each presumably like all the others, the most distinctive thing about Susan was her skipper, as Mosbacher proved in 1957, when-after clinching his eighth straight championship-he took on Bermuda's best in a two-out-of-three match series for the Prince of Wales Trophy. Rules...
...take a milkshake instead of a martini, never smokes a cigarette, and always squeezes the toothpaste from the bottom. The worst anybody can say about him is that maybe he isn't quite sloppy enough. Even his smile is nice, a big, shiny perpetual grin. But on a boat, with an opponent to devastate, the smile has a saber-toothed quality about it. "In match racing," says Mosbacher, "the idea is to find your opponent's Achilles' heel-and sink your teeth into...
Windward, the direction from which the wind is blowing. The windward boat gets the wind before its opponent does and is in a generally favorable position...
Leeward, the direction the wind is blowing. Thus the leeward boat is downwind of its opponent...