Word: skippered
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson's boats were manned by Tony Parker (skipper) and Woody Woodworth (crew) in the A division, Jim Harper (skipper) and Rusty Aertson (crew) in the B division, and Parker Jayne (skipper) and Denny Anderson (crew) in the C division...
...Saturday, Parker, the team's best skipper, finished first with 58 points in the fourth heat of the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association's single-handed Eliminations at the University of Rhode Island...
...fishermen, Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea may be just another fish story. Not to Robert Clarke, 58, a civil engineer for whom a pleasant afternoon of trolling off Argus Bank, Bermuda, recently turned into a Hemingwayesque adventure. It was 4:45 when Skipper Russell Young of the charter boat Sea Wolfe hollered "Strike!" as a reel, loaded with 800 yds. of 30-lb.-test monofilament line, began to sing. Clarke grabbed the rod, set the hook, and gaped with astonishment as a monstrous blue marlin leaped clear of the water. "My God," breathed Young...
...night and night to day, Clarke and the great fish fought it out at opposite ends of a slender nylon thread no thicker than a pencil mark. Seven times the marlin jumped-great bill-slashing leaps that carried it 10 ft. into the air. A dozen times, while Skipper Young deftly backed and turned the boat, Clarke maneuvered the marlin to within 50 yds. of Sea Wolfe, only to have the fish launch a run that stripped 500 yds. of line off the reel in the space of seconds. The duel went on until 1 p.m., when, after...
Desperately disappointed? Naturally. And yet there was glory enough in the losing fight. Both angler and skipper belong to a proliferating new breed of saltwater sportsman; the light-tackle fisherman, to whom the fight is more important than the catch, and sport means giving the fish a sporting chance...