Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mayflower had arrived as tempest-tossed as its namesake. Under the hand of oldtime Australian Skipper Alan Villiers, the 32-man crew had bounced along, wave-lashed in a peanut shell for 53 days (v. 66 days for the original...
Next on the schedule is the Eastern Dinghy Championships, to be held this weekend at the Coast Guard Academy in New London. Deknatel and Tom Townsend will skipper the two varsity boats entered in the championships. The Crimson won the meet last year...
Except for a white carved swan that shields its driver (called its"skipper"), a swan boat is fairly awkward as small-craft go, resembling a barge of floating park benches. There are big brassrails curving over bow and stern used to pull a landing boat to the dock and a jaunty litle American flag out in front. When I approached this peculiar fleet, one of the waiting skippers stood nearby examining the foot-pedal, apparatus...
...dabbled for peanuts, pigeons fluttered and landed on our brass rail, and grackles cawed and clucked on the ponds little island. On the boat itself, two children lost their pinwheels and a third hit a nearby pigeon's flank with a well-aimed peanut. The ride was as the skipper had said, though, smooth, gliding, and graceful--just like a swan...
Bill Saltonstall, John Deknatel, Hanson Robbins, and Tom Townsen will skipper the Crimson craft against M.I.T., Bowdoin, and Boston University at 10 a.m. this morning in the Geiger Trophy contest...