Word: raced
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junior singles, Dave White outclassed all his competitors. Slight-built White moved off from a strong, heavy field at around 28 strokes per minute to win by eight boat lengths over second place Charlie Rheault in 5:24.6 in a three-quarter mile race...
Intercollegiate yachting calls mainly for two crack sailors from each school, since most regattas consist of a series of short race in "A" and "B" divisions with only one boat from each school in each race. But a strong sailing college must have a well rounded squad, because as many as three regattas may occur on the same day and occasional races in which more than two men can enter are held...
There are no such expressions as a "fast boat' 'and a "slow boat." All dinghios in a particular class are identical in construction, and, consequently, racing laurols go to the real sailor and not to the man who has simply the advantage of a good boat. Many regattas are now run on a round-robin basis, whereby the same skipper never gets the chance to race twice in the same boat...
Dinghy sailors can always find a race somewhere. The Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association conducts a host of regattas in the fall and spring, and in the winter the Marblehead and other "frostbite" races never fail to lure hardier college yachtsmen, some of whom insist on racing in shorts...
...races in which the Crimson was not the runner-up, as luck would have it, was the big one--the New England Championships May 7 and 8 which also served as eliminations for the National Championships. In this regatta the Harvard team of Putnam and Scullay dropped to third place, two points behind Brown which nosed out Harvard for the honor of following Yale. Only two boats from New England can race in the nationals...