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Radcliffe, participating in its first New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association regatta of the season, October 9, edged Mt. Holyoke, 78-73, for top honors in the two-division event...
Yesterday, the Harvard sailing team steered past a field of eight New England colleges to win a 15-foot Finn class regatta. Boston University was actually in the lead going into the eighth and final race, but acrobatics by high point skipper Bill Underwood gave him his fourth first and Harvard the meet...
...sailors have a regatta of some kind every weekend in both the fall and the spring...
...Flowing through industrial flats and woodsy hills, on a bottom composed of two centuries of solidified human rubbish, it is often studded with beer cans, packing crates and half-submerged logs. Auxiliary coast guardsmen spent seven days policing the river before last week's President's Cup Regatta-knowing full well that a bit of flotsam could shatter the fragile hull of a hydroplane hurtling across the water at 150 m.p.h. or more...
They might have missed something. Three times a national champion, Seattle's Ron Musson, 38, was doing an estimated 170 m.p.h. in his rear-engined, $250,000 Miss Bardahl when he flashed past the judges' stand on the second lap of the regatta's second heat. In full view of 20,000 horrified spectators, Miss Bardahl clipped something in the water, sheared off a propeller blade, shot straight up into the air, fell back, and disintegrated. Less than three hours later, in the final heat, Don Wilson, 34, in Miss Budweiser and Rex Manchester, 39, in Notre...