Word: skippering
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Admiral and Mrs. Outlaw very kindly invited me to be their house guest on my way from Athens to Malta to join my husband, Captain Baldwin, skipper of U.S.S. Forrestal. Our reunions in both port cities were slightly marred during the wee hours of the morning as the captain awoke, shouting and pounding me under the assumption Russian Badgers were engaging in an overflight...
...third event of the weekend, the Finn Nonagonal (nine teams), the Harvard one-man crews placed third. Abbott Reeve '71 turned in an outstanding performance, amassing the best point score of any skipper in the event...
...regatta's high-point skipper was Radcliffe's Jane Chalmers, who ran up a total of 38 points. Miss Chalmers won four of her six races...
...some consolation to other blue-water yachtsman to learn that Sumner A. ("My friends call me Huey") Long, 46, suffers from seasickness. It is certainly their only consolation, because Long, a Manhattan ship broker, is the world's most successful ocean-racing skipper. Between 1960 and 1967, Long and his 57-ft. yawl Ondine logged 150,000 miles, entering 66 races that ranged in distance from 19 miles to 3,190 miles -and winning 44 of those races either outright or on corrected time. That Ondine, rechristened Severn Star, currently serves as a training boat for cadets...
...course for Miami Beach, 4,100 sea miles distant. For 84 days, Vihlen bobbed and tossed in the prevailing easterlies, subsisted on little else but bread and water, yet kept his sea legs and once happily waved greetings to a curious U.S. submarine. All he asked of the sub skipper was a slice of roast beef, but the galley was closed. For all his bold self-sufficiency, Vihlen's long journey came to a saddening landfall: though within sight of Miami, he was unable to buck the powerful northward flow of the Gulf Stream and the offshore westerly winds...