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...submerged at speeds of up to 35 knots and can operate at depths down to 1,000 ft. There are "sea-mounts"-underwater slopes-charted along her great-circle route homeward that lie only 900 ft. below the surface. Retired Navy Captain Charles N. G. Hendrix, an old "pigboat" skipper who is now a professor of oceanography at the U.S. Naval Academy, likens such subsurface navigation to the plight of "a pilot flying over the Rocky Mountains without knowing how high the highest peaks are, where they are, or even if they exist. The great-circle track in the vicinity...
...Harvard skipper Tony Parker placed seventh in the New England Intercollegiate Sailing Association's Single-Handed Championships at M.I.T. last Sunday...
...Parker's seven races, he sailed to two firsts, two seconds, a third, a fourth, and a seventh. His point total was the second highest in the regatta. Only Brown's "B" division skipper did better, dominating the regatta with 48 points...
Parker and his crew, Steve Bloomstein, compiled 42 points to Yale's 39, but in the "B" division the Elis outpointed Harvard skipper Parker Jayne, 37-31, for the margin of victory...
Harvard's two boats, manned by Tony Parker (skipper) and Rusty Aertson (crew) in A division and Parker Jayne (skipper) and Matt Dobrow (crew) in B division, scored 70 points in winning the regatta Saturday, Jayne, with 38 points, was the regatta's high-point skipper...