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Crimson sailors, working with smooth, team precision, won nine of the ten races held during the series. Skippers Carter Ford, Mike Lehmann, Mike Horn, and Pete Farrow lost only to Bowdoin in the first of Sunday's races. Stookey sailed in place of Farrow on Saturday...
...Horn Loses Control...
...second Coast Guard race, Horn momentarily lost control of his boat when the hiking stick came off the tiller, and a puff of wind nearly capsized him. But, with his boat half full of water and the crew bailing furiously, he let the sail run free and managed to reach the finish line a few inches ahead of one of Coast Guard's ace skippers...
Sailing a 24 foot Raven in winds of to 30 knots, Ford and his crew of Drake, Rock Pring, and Mike Horn two firsts, one second, and one third the four races run on Saturday. Winds 35 to 50 knots on the Thames Sunday cancellation of the last three scheduled races, so Harvard's victory was on the basis of Saturday's performance...
...third race, Ford was sailing on the downwind leg of the course when a sudden shift in the wind direction caused the sail to jibe accidentally. The main boom swung across, carrying both Horn (acting as downwind boomvang) and Drake with it. Pring just managed to place himself in their path and block them from plummeting over the boat's rail...