Word: sail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Team racing is much more exciting than regular racing," sailor Abbott Reeve said Monday. "You try and hurt the other guy as much as possible by making him sail where he doesn't want to go, while your teammates cross the finish line, and then you try to get back before...
...team racing a college's four crews compete as a team and sail each opponent in turn. This introduces a set of tactics where the objective is not merely to get across the finish line first but to assure that enough of your teammates finish ahead of the boats from the other team...
...Lisa sailed the smartest regatta I have ever seen her sail," said coach Mike Horn. "In some races she did everything just right. She won one race by two and a half minutes, and an average race is 25 minutes. That's ten per cent faster than anyone else- something that doesn't happen very often," Horn added...
...English-speaking cousins (Canada, Britain, Australia) is becoming an event of Olympian proportions. As of last week, a tentative line-up for the 1973 race included two challengers from France, Australia and Britain, and one each from West Germany, Canada and Italy. And who will sail for the defense? The victorious Intrepid syndicate lost no time announcing that it will make its bid with a brand-new 12-meter to be sailed by Bill Picker...
...himself canned and rehired in ever more promising posts, as well as great skill in finding backers for disastrous business ventures. When Tomalin and Hall come to Crowhurst's last voyage, they do not belittle the skill and courage of a man who did, in fact, sail an ill-prepared and poorly designed boat over 16,000 miles of open ocean...