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...have been anything but one-sided, and Saturday’s race began as no exception. A Crimson varsity that had worked all week on racing more aggressively took off from the start with a solid first 20 strokes, jumping the senior-laden Tigers by three seats before both boats settled into the first 500. “Having raced them so much last year, we knew they are an incredibly good boat,” varsity five-seat Toby Medaris said. “We knew it was going to be an incredibly hard and very fast race...
...that this is a good test and it gets us refocused.”Both varsity races stayed close throughout, but it was the frustrating to-and-fro of the first varsity race that did in the Crimson. A sluggish start put Harvard six seats down as both boats settled to a race pace for the first 500 meters, but the Crimson kept Dartmouth from adding any more to its lead in the opening half of the race.A midway push helped the Crimson gain four seats back, trimming the Dartmouth advantage to a mere two seats. Then the Big Green...
Five minutes later, I was sprinting through the rain in flip-flops and spandex toward the Weld boathouse. But it was only after I had slid my feet into the damp footholds of the eight boat and grabbed hold of the oars that I came to my senses (as much as is humanly possible before caffeine) and asked myself: “What on earth am I doing here...
...faut aller voir" (We must go and see) was the motto aboard legendary sea explorer Jacques Cousteau's boat Calypso. With his 1956 Oscar-winning underwater-adventure documentary The Silent World, Cousteau transported millions of viewers to the Indian Ocean islands of Assomption and Aldabra - one of the world's largest coral atolls. Today it's possible to go in person. The Island Sky is a small expedition ship that departs from Mauritius, taking 100 passengers on 12-day-long cruises on these turquoise waters. Wading ashore Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore...
...senior crew Mallory Greimann said. “But it was good for developing our skills, and the conditions on were nice.”Freshman skipper Andrew Flynn led the way along with junior crew Robby McIntosh, while junior Marion Guillaume and freshman Margaret Wang skippered the other boats. Greimann and sophomore Alicia Harley crewed those boats, respectively.It was just the second time that Guillaume and Greimann had sailed in the same boat.“I was pleased with how I sailed considering we’d only been in a boat together one other time...