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There is an old saying: two heads are better than one. While that may not always be true, it is definite that two regatta victories are also better than one, and that is exactly what the Harvard sailing team picked up this weekend. The Harvard coed team won the Erin Schell Trophy at MIT on Sunday, and the Crimson women also won the Victorian Coffee Urn, which Harvard hosted. The coed team won the Schell Trophy with 208 points, besting second place Brown by 32 points. The Crimson was led by its B division team of sophomores Kyle Kovacs...
...When a UNICEF team decided to dispatch a flotilla of 11 boats up the Indus, loaded with relief supplies, I jumped at the chance to sail into these forbidden valleys. Even though the tribes had requested assistance, UNICEF project leader Tamur Mueenuddin, a tireless Pakistani doctor, wasn't sure what sort of reception his team would get. What little money Kala Dhaka's tribesmen scrape together, usually from selling opium, is spent on guns. Scenes flashed through my mind from the film Deliverance, in which Burt Reynolds and his rafting buddies are picked off by vengeful hillbillies...
...matters of clan honor and revenge. As our flotilla pulled up to the riverbank, a jirga and their gunmen were on hand to welcome Mueenuddin. He was escorted up to an ancient shade tree beside a mosque. This was a crucial moment: would the elders allow us to sail upriver, or would they grab all the aid for themselves? Mueenuddin made his case eloquently. A few supplies were dropped off, and I saw a line of men like ants hefting 30-kg sacks of flour up a near-vertical mountain. Said Mueenuddin: "I told them we didn't have many...
Last week, individual accomplishment garnered most of the headlines for the Crimson co-ed sailing team, as junior skipper Clay Johnson’s third consecutive New England Singlehanded title earned top billing. One week later, teamwork was once again the name of the game at the Navy Fall Invitational in Annapolis, Md. Johnson and junior crew Kristen Lynch steered the Harvard squad to an A-division victory and a sixth-place overall finish out of twenty teams, while junior Matt Knowles filled in for a sick teammate in the D-division race. “Last week was more...
Good things come in threes. For Clay Johnson of the Harvard sailing team, the third time was just as charming as the first two.The junior skipper made easy work of the New England Singlehanded Championship last weekend, claiming his third title in as many years. He beat out 34 other sailors, notching five wins in 14 races and beating Zander Kirkland of Tufts by 15 points. Johnson’s fall season is far from over. With his victory, Johnson qualified for nationals in Hawaii. “Going in, I really just try to be consistent...