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...Crown Point Shores Park at Mission Bay in San Diego against stiff competition—the field included defending national champion Washington as well as runner-up Stanford. While the varsity eight placed third in its division, the second varsity eight defeated Washington and Cal’s second boats to capture the Sharp Cabrillo Cup with a time of 5:52.31. “The race went really well,” said senior bow seat Breffny Morgan. “Our boat got off to a really clean and powerful start and the pace we set was controlled...
...Kate Morris said. “We were thrown in against a really good crew and we can learn a lot from this.” “They rowed a very composed race and they actually led,” assistant coach Cory Bosworth said of her boat. “I’m pretty excited since Brown was over-stroking us from the beginning. So, with fewer stokes we were going the distance and staying up on them, one of the most competitive boats in our league.” The Bears enjoyed a three-second...
...team, spearheaded by a first-place finish from the A pairing of freshman John Stokes and sophomore Winston Yan. The two overcame a twelfth-place finish in the sixth of eight races on the weekend to take the top spot by two over Yale’s A boat...
...spent 60 days in a Dutch jail under accusation of ramming a Norwegian whaling vessel. In 2002, he was forced to flee Costa Rica after ramming an illegal shark fishing boat. And last month, a Japanese Coast Guard marksman allegedly shot him as he attacked an illegal whaling ship in the South Pacific Whale Sanctuary—the bullet lodged in his Kevlar vest...
...band of pirates takes a more radical approach. Over the last few months Watson pursued Japanese whalers across the South Pacific in the Steve Irwin, a boat named after the Australian crocodile hunter, who had planned to join a Sea Shepherd voyage before his death. At the height of the chase, Sea Shepherd activists boarded a Japanese whaling vessel, sparking an international crisis that only ended when Australian diplomats negotiated the activists’ release. In the aftermath Australia’s generally anti-whaling government sternly warned Sea Shepherd to not repeat the stunt, and moderate conservation groups distanced...