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Ancient mariners told of the Flying Dutchman, a phantom ship eternally doomed to sail the waters around the Cape of Good Hope, never making port. In the Gulf of Mexico last week the real-life vessel Mobro 4,000 seemed as damned as the Dutchman as it searched in vain for a friendly harbor. Southern ports had good reason for turning away the bereft barge: it was loaded with 3,168 tons of rancid, fly-infested trash from New York...
After the regulation races were finished, the Crimson found itself in a three-way tie with the Elis and the Jumbos for the final two qualifying spots. In the sail-off, the Crimson crushed both teams to secure third place and a berth in the New Englands...
...have a good chance of qualifying for Nationals," Burnes said. "We have three excellent skippers. Saturday was an example of how well we can sail...
Consider the pace of Michele Ward, 26, and Kenneth Hoffman, 31, top executives at different Connecticut management-consulting firms. "The prime purpose of our answering machine at home is so we can keep in touch with each other," says Ken of their jammed schedules. For pleasure, they sail and "cook seriously together," whipping up veal Normandy or Persian duck in pomegranate sauce. They subscribe to four gourmet magazines and have a collection of 150 cookbooks. Most recent vacation: three weeks in Tahiti and Bora Bora. "Part of me would like children, but, practically speaking, I don't see how," says...
...snowy Dublin evening during the Christmas season, Gabriel Conroy and his wife Gretta attend his maiden aunts' annual dinner dance. He is a smug, possessive "stout tallish young man," who is preparing some after-dinner remarks with allusions to Browning and classical antiquity that, he fears, will sail over the heads of his unsophisticated audience...