Word: boated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Hopefully, last season's second half surge will carry through to next year," Millar said. "With a new coach coming in, everyone is in the same boat. There are no guaranteed spots, and I think that everyone's play will be much hungrier and...with much more intensity and desperation...
...Sophomore, was the stroke of the varsity lightweight boat that won last year's national lightweight crew championship. He's really sweet, extremely funny, and congenial, a very decent...
...then the hurricane took that sudden turn. The bad weather started pounding us Tuesday night. Waves were completely covering the boat, and we were pitching 46[degrees]. By early Wednesday, it started getting really bad. We were in seas of 45-to-55-plus ft., much bigger than anything I'd ever seen. We began getting into real trouble about 3 in the morning, when we started taking on water at the rudder assembly faster than our pumps could keep...
...about 8 in the morning in 55-ft. seas with 60-knot winds. It wasn't the easiest thing to do. Five men were able to get into it, and we tied it to the tug with a pair of lines. We wanted to pass things from the boat--flares and stuff--to the raft, and then climb in ourselves. But one rope broke, and then the other. It was like watching hope float away...
That left the three of us on board--David Lytle, Tim Chambers and me. We knew we had to get in the water or we'd get sucked under with the boat. To be honest, I was scared to death. We had life jackets on and life rings, but the life rings took off when we jumped, about 15 ft. into the water from the port side. We grabbed a broomstick to stay together and tried to paddle toward the raft, which was 300 yds. away. It was obvious that wouldn't work, and we knew we had to conserve...