Word: crews
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...know many languages that you realize there are few boundaries between them." His latest book, Sea of Poppies - recently short-listed for this year's Man Booker Prize - crests along the collision and collusion of tongues found aboard the Ibis, a 19th century schooner plying the Indian Ocean. Its crew speaks a babble of English, Portuguese, Hindustani, Malay, Tamil, Chinese - and yet, through "the alchemy of the open water," as Ghosh writes, they communicate sufficiently well to sail this great wooden hulk. Language animates the Ibis, as well it should: loaded with migrants, opium and the dreams of unwitting pioneers...
...Skipper Robb and sophomore crew Quincy Bock sailed in the A-division, placing 12th...
...Sophomore skipper John Stokes and junior crew Michelle Konstadt manned the B-division boat, while skipper Powers and sophomore crew Grace Charles sailed in the C-division...
...Skipper Garrity and his crew, senior Kerry Anne Bradford, had the best showing for the Crimson, finishing sixth in the B-division...
...Sophomore skipper Alan Palmer and senior crew Lauren Brants sailed to 16th in the A-division, while Himler placed 11th in the singlehanded C-division...