Word: sailed
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...past five years, two all-female crews have sailed the 33,000-mile Round-the-World Whitbread, the most punishing of fleet races. And on the international regatta circuit, the number of women on crews has crept up. But so far, the America's Cup -- sailed on the world's biggest, fanciest racing yachts in one-on-one matches -- has remained off limits. Although several owners' wives sailed in pre-World War II Cups, only three independent women sailors have participated in Cup trials in recent years. Was it the old saw that women bring bad luck on a boat...
...sail them very often and so we weren't sure what to expect," senior Nick DuBois said...
...former documentary filmmaker and children's TV producer. "It's Gene Roddenberry's vision that I agreed to uphold." The job is trickier than it might seem. Berman, a vice president at Paramount when Roddenberry tapped him as the producer of The Next Generation, has had to sail his enterprise between the Scylla of Roddenberry's own "prime directive" -- a stricture against any conflict among members of Starfleet -- and the Charybdis of mass-market appeal...
Once the Crimson was able to adjust to the wind, it generated several offensive chances. The players started making smart passes along the ground so that the wind wouldn't sail the ball past their intended targets...
...Sweden-bound ferry that sank yesterday in the Baltic Sea killing over 800 people had been declared unseaworthy by inspectors just a day earlier. Swedish inspectors had examined the ferry in Tallinn, Estonia right before it set sail Tuesday and criticized the seals on the cargo door. No word yet on why the ferry was let out of the docks, but an investigation into one of the worst peacetime sea disasters in history continues. Most of the people on board were Swedes returning from an Estonian vacation. The tally so far: 823 dead, 126 rescued. There's little hope...