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Then it was Sarah Herrick's turn. In the final B division race, Herrick was second to the Engineer boat at the leeward mark. "It looked like everything was okay," Horn explained, "because Sarah was right with MIT. We would have won the regatta even if she finished second or third...
...cheap way to sail, but it is not for everyone-if only because a prospective skipper needs to show some experience before a charter firm will send him tacking off through the coral with $45,000 worth of boat under him. Anyone who knows the difference between windward and leeward but not between a boom vang and an outhaul feels apprehensive. There you will be, stuck on some molar of rock, the dummy of the Windward Islands. But to bridge the gap between the fumbling amateur and the moderately competent seaman, C.S.Y. has its "sail-'n'-learn" program...
...over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant and city dump, Squaw Island. We used to have to run laps around the giant sewage treatment tanks, and sometimes we'd even run through the dump. The air was rotten on the leeward side of the island, but on the river side, the winds off the water would clear the stink out of our nostrils. In the spring, we'd pray that the ice would break up so we wouldn't have to run those ten-mile races through the putrid...
...straight down at the largest volcano ever seen by man, Nix Olympica, which is six miles high and more than 300 miles in diameter at its base. Evidence of the fury of Martian winds can be seen in a number of pictures that show tear-shaped features to the leeward side of craters and other surface irregularities. Scientists believe that these features are wind shadows of sand that are formed behind the craters by the violent winds. One photograph shows an area with unusual swirls, and a crater-like feature that to the hard-working JPL scientists seems to have...
...most outstanding structural features are a floating barge-like foundation. vertical boat handling storage system. and swinging docking floats that enable easy leeward landings from any wind direction. Instead of the traditional piling supports, the new boathouse is built on a floating steel barge...