Word: boated
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...strong headwind on the regatta’s first day—combined with a dominant performance from the German national crew—scratched the possibility of taking the shorter route to the finals. The Crimson placed last in the four-boat field, well behind USA1 and just nipped at the line by the Egyptians...
Walking back through its opponents in the six-boat repechage was not nearly as easy, but proved far more successful than the previous day’s effort...
Sebago, now part of the same group that makes Merrell outdoor shoes, is back with its classic Docksides boat shoe, but the company has added more modern, sports-inspired versions and a women's line of sandals. It's even inspiring others: Tod's new moc, above left, borrows from the Docksides standard...
...heroes of Robert Kurson's Shadow Divers (Random House; 375 pages) go to very great lengths, and even greater depths, to do precisely that. Their story began in 1991 when Bill Nagle, captain of a charter boat catering to scuba divers, got wind of an unexplored shipwreck 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. He quickly rounded up a dirty dozen of recreational divers, including a Vietnam veteran named John Chatterton, and sailed out for a look-see. A quick underwater peek revealed that the wreck was, unbelievably, a World War II--vintage German U-boat, nestled...
...team, led by the intrepid Chatterton, began to explore the mystery U-boat. At that depth they could stay down for just minutes at a time, so they had to work methodically, room by room, dive by dive. The wreck began gobbling them up just as methodically: the first to die was an affable hobbyist named Steve Feldman, who lost consciousness and drowned. Others didn't go as peacefully, but with each death the divers only became more determined...