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...question is whether it still deserves to belong to the boys. For the first time, an all-female crew -- whose members range from Ivy League Olympians to a deaf bodybuilder featured on the TV show American Gladiators -- will be competing for a spot in the world's most famous sailboat race. In a grueling round robin over the next three months, the women, recruited by 1992 Cup winner William Koch, will race veteran Dennis Conner and another all-male crew, PACT '95, for the single U.S. spot. Seven foreign syndicates, including a formidable Australian team, will compete separately against each...
Under a glistening moon, the 60-ft. sailboat St. Joseph, moored off a spit of land on the southern coast of Haiti, was quickly loading its human cargo. Suddenly the silence of the night was broken by the sound of an approaching military boat. At first the people on the sailboat froze in fear, hoping the patrol would pass. But when three shots rang out, the St. Joseph headed toward open water, its crew and passengers in panic. Rushing from one side to the other to get away from the gunfire, many people fell or were pushed overboard. Then, when...
Haitian military police fired Wednesday on a 60-foot sailboat full of refugees trying to take to sea, setting off a panic in which at least 30 people were drowned. Witnesses offered TIME correspondent Edward J. Barnes the first verified report that Haitian authorities have fired on refugees attempting to flee. At about 1 a.m., Barnes was told, a Haitian police launch approached the ship at Nan L'Etat, off Haiti's southern coast, surprising a boatload of refugees drawn from about 400 waiting in surrounding coves and hillsides for passage to America. "At first, local villagers say, the boat...
...Janus, 42, and his wife and business partner Renata, 40, two Utah transplants from Toronto, telecommute from a mountain house and, for about 100 days a year, from the cabin of their 36-ft. Catalina sailboat, the Miss Behaving III, on the Great Salt Lake. A consultant with a contract to distribute high-end data communications systems for Motorola's Codex Corp., Janus says that "the boat's especially nice during the heavy winter snows. Or if there's a great sunset on a Sunday evening, I can just stay on board until Monday morning." It is also as useful...
...Even when she was still in college, I told everyone that of all the people that I've ever coached, she has the best temperament for sailboat racing [of] anyone I've ever known," Horn said...