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...victorious J.V. boat (cox-Ellen Chaffin, stroke-Liz Siderides, 7-Sarah Gallup, 6-Ellen Roy, 5-Cathy Vance, 4-Kate Heller, 3-Allison Herron, 2-Noreen Hughes, bow-Sarah Boxer) raced although they failed to make weight. Two women were over the 130-lb, maximum and the boat average was higher than the allowed 125 lbs. Both the other two squads qualified easily...
Senior Nelia Worsley, who hung up her goalie skates last month to fill the oarssomen's bow position, said yesterday, "We kept our pace solid, and the low cadence helped deal with the wind. We're psyched about the rest of the season...
...laconic Parker may have painted too desolate a picture. Senior captain and Porcellian prexy Gordie Gardiner, returning to the stroke position after a year at number two, and other third-year men Warren Perkins, at number two, and Paul Templeton at the bow, should provide a sound nucleus for the Harvard eight...
...uniform of the day," says Captain Gordon Hall, watching his parka-clad deck crew scramble around on the slippery bow, "is anything to keep warm." It is 0900 hours, with a -15° F wind-chill factor, and the U.S. Coast Guard icebreaker Mackinaw is about to slip her berth in Sault Ste. Marie. She is headed for Whitefish Bay, a shallow and troublesome body of water leading into the treacherous inland sea that is Lake Superior. In 1975 the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, eulogized by Singer Gordon Lightfoot, was heading for shelter in the bay through a November gale...
...does not exactly knife through it. She just sort of squashes the stuff, bit by bit. As we hit a swath of virgin ice half a mile wide, out in the bay, the twin screws in the stern force the ship's nearly 2-in.-thick tempered-steel bow up over the edge of the ice. The ice bends, then yields with a deep, dull, grinding mutter. Below decks, it sounds as if the Mac is bumping along over a dry bed of rocks. Down in the engine room crewmen wear plastic ear muffs to muffle noise from...