Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that the complex 12-meter yachting rules were upheld. On the eve of the first race, Courageous was declared legal, and Brian Leary, Southern Cross syndicate manager, put the squall behind him. "Listen," he said, "the Americans have pasted Courageous stickers all over the inside of our boat...
...junior varsity heavyweights also enjoyed success in the Eastern Sprints and at Wisconsin and Washington. The third varsity boat's winning season was only marred by a loss to the UMass varsity boat. The freshmen heavies could not quite pull out a victory at the Easterns, getting nosed out by Cornell by two tenths of a second...
Radcliffe achieved unprecedented success, as both the varsity eight and the varsity four won Eastern Sprint titles. Although both boats failed to capture national titles and the right to represent the United States at Lucerne for the world championship, they were defeated by boats made up of the best from several colleges and boat clubs. Both the eight--which last year consisted of cox Nancy Hadley, Allison Hill, Connie Cervilla, Wiki Royden, Judith Ames, Alison Hall, Jenny Getsinger, Marie Adams, and Katie Moss--and the four--Barbara Norris, Anne Robinson, Sarah Kuhn, Robin Lothrop, and cox Amy Sachs--should...
...they found the storms that raged within their boat harder to handle. From the start, Lipscomb Senior resolved to leave the decisions to his son and the young crew and merely record their adventures on film. The presence of a camera inevitably affects the way people behave. The fact that the camera is also wielded by a father cannot help influencing the behavior of a son, particularly if the father is, like Lipscomb, a skilled sailor. Before Four Winds could cross the equator, it had to get over the generation...
Lipscomb recounts that passage with understanding, humor and painful honesty. John, as expected, grew tense as he made the dozens of daily decisions about handling the boat, and his testiness helped create problems keeping the crew together. One of the boys was arrested for possession of marijuana during a stopover in Mexico; Four Winds sailed on without him. Another crewman proved to be an almost pathological worker who resented the fact that other crew members were not so energetic as he. A third was an easygoing child of nature who never did any chore that he could possibly...