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After watching their opponent's shell crash into a sailboat and send two sailors sprawling into the Charles, the Radcliffe lightweight crew survived a strong tailwind, sleet, an abbreviated course, a busted rigger and numbing cold only to lose narrowly to the UNH heavyweight varsity Saturday morning...
Marina mariners wax lyrical over the psychological and physical rewards of being their own skippers. Mrs. Johnston, 48, has lived for more than twelve years on her wooden 55-ft. sailboat, Silhouette. "I love the water," she says. "I love to get up in the morning and see the seagulls. It's a lovely sensation being rocked to sleep. It's like a continuous camping-out trip...
...young girl may hot, even with her fiance, lunch in a road house without a chaperon, or go on a journey that can by any possibility last over night. To go out with him in a small sailboat sounds harmless enough, but might result in a questionable situation if they are becalmed, or if they are left helpless in a sudden fog. The Maine coast, for example, is particularly subject to fogs that often shut down without warning ... A man and a girl went out from Bar Harbor and did not get back until next day. Everyone knew...
Bursting out of a squall at 16 knots, a vast wall of steel pulverizes a small sailboat and steams blithely on. The million-ton megatanker Leviathan, biggest moving object on the face of the earth, leaves Peter and Carolyn Hardin floundering in the chill Atlantic. He survives; she does not. Dr. Hardin is ravaged by the death of his wife and half crazed over his inability to win redress or even acknowledgment of what he regards as murder. But he is rich, a skillful sailor and a brilliant technician. In another boat, a 38-ft. sloop he renames Carolyn, equipped...
Brel set out in his own 18-meter sailboat for the Marquesas Islands in the South Pacific, where he settled down with his West Indian mistress. He returned to France last year to record Brel, which has since sold more than 2 million copies. "There are people as unhappy and bored as I sometimes am," Brel once said, explaining his appeal. "They feel a little better that somebody knows and tells them what he knows...