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...Marques had appeared in several movies and portrayed the Beagle in the television series The Voyage of Charles Darwin. It was one of 39 ships competing in , the 800-mile Bermuda-Nova Scotia leg of the biennial Cutty Sark tall ships race sponsored by the British and American Sail Training Associations. One requirement of the race is that half of each ship's crew must be between the ages of 16 and 25. Finlay, an American who operated a sailing school in Antigua, had a complement of 28, including 13 from the U.S., seven from Britain, six from...
...course, as if we had been placed on board a great sailing ship already underway and, without quite understanding the complex interplay of wind, vessel and water, we had begun to comprehend some part of the ship's arrangements. Little by little, we found that we could turn a useful hand to trimming or mending a sail, doing a bit of navigation, preparing a meal in the galley or singing (if you will pardon a picturesque phrase) a shanty or two on the fo'c's'le. We joined the crew of a great vessel which had already traversed many...
...knockout punch" left Harvard reeling, and the Crimson wasn't ready when it had to go against Seton Hall again just 20 minutes after watching 11 1/2 innings work sail out of the ballpark. Harvard committed a season-high eight errors and lost, 9-1, dropping to third in the Northeast and 28-6 overall...
...devotion to Harvard crew lasts until one o'clock," he said. And with that Winthrop set sail home...
...kaleidoscope of uniforms: British, Commonwealth, French, Norwegian, Belgian, Czech, Dutch, Polish and, of course, American. So many U.S. officers worked around Grosvenor Square that G.I.s walking through the area kept their arms raised in semipermanent salute. In the southern counties, near the coast from which the armada would sail, military convoys clogged the crooked lanes of the countryside; entire fields disappeared under swarms of tanks and trucks and piles of ammunition and fuel...