Word: skippering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lieut. Joseph E. Guion, skipper of Kiowa, and Lieut, (j.g.) Raymond E. Foy, a Navy frogman, described the sight. Said Guion: "It looked like an extremely large shooting star, very white and blinking. It was a little sun falling down." Said Foy: "The light was a lot more intense than the moon. It was almost painful to look directly at it.'' The meteor flared through the sky, disappeared behind a cloud bank, blazed forth below. It slowed down, dimming its light and blooming two parachutes, dropped into the sea about five miles from Kiowa. This was what...
After two days, 70 victims had been pulled from the water, and more than 100 were still missing. Police arrested the Dandara's skipper, and charged him with negligence in taking aboard 300 passengers on a boat whose rated safe capacity...
...father-in-law about the time they were cruising in Lake Huron, and she warned him to look out for underwater boulders. "Don't worry." said Jay. "I know where all the rocks are in this place." Just then the boat ground up over a rock. "See?" said Skipper Smith with admirable aplomb. "There...
...eight miles, they'll go eight miles straight out and then have to be brought in." Last year a Coast Guard boat chugged out to rescue a man whose brand-new, 36-ft. cruiser had broken down. The rescuers tossed him a towline, whereupon the stalled skipper triumphantly tied it around his waist and hollered "Let's go!" One of the classic invitations to trouble comes for the outboard owner when the engine quits. The owner lunges to the stern to fix it. His added weight brings the transom, already too low in the water, lower still...
Other teams competing in the regatta are Army, Brown, Coast Guard, Cornell, Dartmouth, Navy, Penn, Princeton, Yale and Williams. Hanson Robbins and Jim Parker will skipper the two Crimson boats...