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Last Tuesday, after a week of fine-tuning rudder, rigging and sails and applying strips of plastic film to the hull, Conner came out smoking and caught the Kiwis by surprise. Stars & Stripes crossed the starting line three seconds ahead of New Zealand and never relinquished the lead. On the 24.1-mile course's four windward legs, Conner refused to be drawn into Dickson's practiced tacking maneuvers, in which the lead boat covers the one behind, trying to prevent it from escaping the blockage of its breeze. In a blustery 26-knot wind, Stars & Stripes did not risk losing...
Clifford began his search for the Whydah in 1982. Armed with an exclusive permit from the state of Massachusetts, he concentrated on a 2-sq.-mi. area, using a magnetometer and side-scan sonar. In the summer of 1983 divers found a clay pipestem, brass nails and some rudder strapping. But try as he might, Clifford could not convince everyone that the artifacts were from the Whydah and not from any of the countless other ships that have been wrecked off the Cape. Even the 1984 discovery of three cannons failed to satisfy Clifford's critics. But last fall, while...
...stern is sitting upright on the bottom...one huge piece with a lot of wreckage around," he said. Viewing through video cameras, the crew spotted a crane and the rudder but the propeller was buried and the homeport markings of Southampton had rusted off the stern...
After three tries, the Bruins finally sat ready at the start but drifted into a rope that snagged its rudder...
...dynamic of human history appears to be a constantly increasing rate of change. Attending the Black Alumni Weekend increased my awareness that in this amplified technical age, where human energy appears strained merely to deal with the proliferation of new events, the importance of history is increasing as a rudder in the four dimensional voyage of humanity. The Harvard Black students and faculty who organized the Black Alumni Weekend appear also to have grasped this important perception. One of the hardest tasks of today's education, and indeed in any aspect of life today, may be to place the welther...