Word: bowness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...crew got together a couple of years ago to outfit a boat which one of them had bought, and bow-man David Higgins '69 is still on his 96-foot schooner, sailing somewhere off the coast of Puerto Rico. "My wife and I plan to sail through the Panama Canal, across the South Pacific to Australia, and eventually around the world," Higgings reported last week over a static-filled ship-to-shore radio frequency...
Unlike sprints, where boats line up bow to bow and race for 2000 meters along a straight course with the first one across the finish line declared the winner, boats in each event in the Head start at ten-second intervals and race 5000 meters (about three miles) upstream from the down-stream edge of the Boston University boat house (in the Charles River Basin) to a point in the Metropolitan District Commission park near the Ramada Inn. Keeping track of the times and comparing them, a computer can then show who won the particular event...
Each boat is assigned a number. That number is displayed prominently on the bow of the boat and the back of the man in the bow seat. To tell how any one boat is doing relative to the others, just look at that boat's number and compare it to the numbers of the boats to the bow and the stern in front and behind of that boat, keeping in mind that if crew number 27 is ahead of crews number 26, 25, and 24, it is doing well with respect to the other three...
...ship gone down so swiftly? Descending through the hulk, Gimbel and Diver Ted Hess cut a hole in a duct and pushed down past three decks to the generator room, squeezing through silt and broken steel plates until, astonished, they found themselves on the sea floor. The icebreaker bow of the Stockholm, Gimbel concluded, had simply "torn the guts out of the Doria" Several days later, expedition members, suffering from colds and ear infections, voted to quit while they were ahead...
...presence, he says, " 'Predate it." Indeed, Helms' single flamboyance is a maniacal Southern courtesy: he grabs every serving spoon, offers to carry every bag and sheaf in sight and opens every door. In fact, he does not just open a door; he sweeps his beneficiary through with a bow and a flourish...