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...boat was very consistent. [Robb] had a really great regatta,” senior Elyse Dolbec said. “It was really great to see him step up and do well.”The Crimson’s A-division pair of senior skipper Kyle Kovacs and crew Elyse Dolbec sailed to a third-place finish, but a few poor finishes offset the team’s five race victories.“Our boat specifically had some races that were disappointing,” Dolbec said. “We had a lot of unforced errors...
...Clan, it’s The Killa Beez, you know, it’s whatever we call it at the time, because we don’t really look at it as just Wu-Tang Clan, we just look at it as Clan. Clan is the crew, the family, everything is family-oriented. FM: When you say ‘The Clan,’ I just think, it just sounds like...doesn’t it sound like... R: Ku Klux Klan? FM: Yeah. Does that sound weird? R: (laughs) I know, it sounds like that only because...
...Described by a 1999 government inquiry as the Royal Australian Navy's "glamour ship," the Sydney had returned in 1941 from victories in the Mediterranean. Schoolchildren in her namesake city were given a public holiday to watch her crew parade through the streets. "She was a beautiful ship, a well-experienced ship," says Ean McDonald, a former Sydney signaler. But on Nov. 19, off the coast of Western Australia, she encountered a German raider, the Kormoran. What happened next will never be known for certain, but both ships sank. The Kormoran was scuttled and more than...
...1990s, Perth naval-history buff Kim Kirsner sifted through those accounts and came up with possible coordinates. But many people were reluctant to believe the enemy, he says. The Germans stood accused of luring the Sydney with a white flag, sinking her and shooting at her crew in the water. There was "always a chorus in the background," says Kirsner, "that the Germans lied...
...Last week came the first gesture in a series of planned commemorations. In a heaving swell, the Sydney's finders threw a wreath onto the waves above the ship and read a poem by one of its doomed crew: "There sleeps one who took his chances/ In that war-crazed, tragic hell/ Battled luck and circumstances/ Loved and laughed, but fought and fell...