Word: boated
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heady mixture of champagne and acclaim. Colas (pronounced Kola) had crossed the finish line 20 days, 1 3 hours and 15 minutes after the start, for the fastest - by more than five days - winning time in the four quadrennial races held to date. In his ugly duckling of a boat, the 70-ft. by 35-ft. aluminum trimaran Pen Duick IV, Colas had averaged about 150 nautical miles a day for the 3,000-mile voyage, covering 260 miles in one 24-hour period...
...bankrolled by French Film Director Claude (A Man and a Woman) Lelouch, and sailed by Parisian Swinger Jean-Yves Terlain. By all accounts, Vendredi was well ahead and less than a day from Newport when Lelouch chartered a plane to add some footage to his proposed documentary on his boat's victory, to be called A Man and a Boat. What he got instead was a stunning view of Pen Duick gliding across the finish off Brenton Reef 16 hours in front...
...Fatalities. His only major difficulty on the transatlantic race came on the fourth day out, when a connection on his self-steering gear snapped under the hull. "There was only one thing to do," Colas later told the London Observer, sponsor of the race. "I fixed myself to the boat with a line and went over the side. The water was intensely cold. It was blowing Force 8 [gale winds of up to 40 knots], and the waves were about 12 ft. high. But it had to be done. I had either to repair the boat or abandon the race...
...those." Meanwhile, he can collect some plump publishing and endorsement fees (the race's official first prize is simply a 12-in. silver plate) and continue paying off the borrowed money he has sunk into Pen Duick IV. Says Fiancée Teura: "Everything has gone into the boat. So Alain had to win for our marriage, for our future, for everything. But, you see, he is not a man like other men." D'accord...
Noting that all 21 students are now "in the same legal boat," Burg said he will ask the District Court to refer the case immediately to the Massachusetts State Supreme Court after clarifying two points...