Word: skippering
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...great Yankee skipper Joshua Slocum used only the simplest of navigational instruments-a compass, a sextant and his famous "dollar clock"-when he sailed his 37-ft. Spray round the world alone from 1895 to 1898. The solitary skipper of a spanking new sloop called the Oxy will find his life at sea far easier than Slocum's when he sails in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic next year. If he wants to relax and leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night...
Manning the three Crimson boats were co-captain Marie Rhoem as skipper and Cassie Levitt as crew, co-captain Sarah Herrick and Lora Fleming as co-skippers, and Pam Mack, as skipper and Ruth Bandler and Martha Kleinschmidt shared the crew duties...
Martial Arts. On the bridge, Captain James Scott, 48, the Forrestal's skipper and a former fighter pilot, watched the thunderous flight deck activities below with a cheerful scowl: "We can do this with a 200-ft. ceiling and three-quarter-mile visibility," he said in his Alabama drawl. "That's badass. We don't like it, but in a crunch we have that capability, even at night...
...wind in this weekend's meet was more than adequate, as many boats reportedly either capsized or came "awfully close to doing so," according to one slightly wet, anonymous skipper...
Harvard's Tim Black, skippering in B division with crew Steve Saudek, ended up as low point skipper for the day with a first, two seconds and a third. Tony Leggett and crew John Ebel took on the A division and wound up with two seconds and a pair of fourths...