Word: foredeck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sovereign won her third straight race when Kurrewa lost 65 seconds by being recalled for a premature start. Then it was Sovereign's turn to bumble. Holding a neat five-length lead with only three miles to go in a rough, whitecapped sea, Sovereign spilled one of her foredeck men overboard. Kurrewa took the lead while Sovereign went fishing, poured back wind into Sovereign's sails the rest of the way, and won by 40 seconds...
...foredeck of Constellation racing off Newport, R.I., last week, several crewmen had an urgent command magic-markered on their right knees: "Beat the Bird." That was about the size of it. As the second series of America's Cup trials neared an end, anyone who hoped to defend the cup for the U.S. against Britain this September had to beat American Eagle and her brilliant skipper, Bill Cox. In six official races in the current series, the big new twelve-meter has defeated Constellation once, Nefertiti once, Columbia twice, Easterner twice. Her overall record in the first two series...
...Foredeck chief Mike Deland, foredeckman Mike Lehmann and cockpit crew Jann Weymouth have competed once before. Navigator Bobby Robertson, cockpit crew Dave Gantz and alternate Dave Stookey are the only newcomers...
...finale, however, Bill Kelly of Babson, foredeck man on the Weatherly in the America's Cup race, pulled ahead of Horn by half a point. The solid Crimson depth--Horn with 50 points, Ford with 47 and Stookey with 46--could not overcome, though, and Harvard finished 18 1/2 points ahead of Babson and 20 1/2 on top of M.I.T...
...next morning, in a 16-knot breeze, he stood bareheaded and coatless on the foredeck of Northampton and watched 48 ships pass in review. A 21-gun salute pounded out as the nine-mile double line of ships, led by the mighty nuclear-powered carrier Enterprise and the smaller Forrestal, churned through the frothy waters of the Gulf Stream off North Carolina's Outer Banks...