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...still, it wasn’t until I got an e-mail from co-ed captain Jon Garrity inviting me to last weekend’s regatta that I decided that it would probably be a good idea to actually watch one of these events for myself...
...Lesson 2: Everything about a regatta in November is cold...
...uncharacteristically rough finish two weekends ago, the Harvard women made the most of their last chance to qualify for ACCs at home. The Crimson, led by the A-division team of captain Megan Watson and Wareham, finished 13 points ahead of Ivy rivals Yale and Brown to win the regatta.“At times we were in the right place at the right time, and at times…[it was] knowing how to sail on the Charles,” Wareham said. Skipper Watson and crew Wareham navigated tricky conditions admirably on their way to a first-place...
Plimpton's fame and glaring idiosyncrasies (born and raised in New York City, he spoke as if he were always dashing off to a regatta) make him the perfect subject for a code-cracking biography, the kind that lays bare the man and his motivations. George, Being George does the trick, in part by borrowing the form of Plimpton's own biographies of Capote and Edie Sedgwick (Jean Stein's Edie: American Girl, which he edited). Recognizing that Plimpton's spirit would suffocate under the weight of analytic prose, editor Nelson Aldrich Jr. interviewed more than 200 verbally dexterous Plimpton...
...rough weekend in the Northeast’s waters for the Harvard sailors, as the team couldn’t muster better than 11th place in any of its five regattas. Women’s captain Megan Watson finished 12th at the ICSA Women’s Singlehanded Championship at Cornell, and co-ed captain Jon Garrity led the way for the Crimson’s best finish on the weekend at the Hoyt Trophy. Both the co-ed and women’s squads have one final chance to qualify for the ACC Championship this weekend.ICSA WOMEN?...