Word: skippering
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Perhaps the high point of the fall season was the Crimson victory in the Ivy League championship, held on the Charles in October. Heavy rain and winds of 30 knots swept the regatta an high point skipper Mike Horn and Captain Carter Ford led the Crimson to a 16 point triumph over second-place Cornell...
Also in October, Ford became the first skipper over to win the New England Sloop Championships three years in a row, Sailing with Horn, Rock Pring. and Pete Drake in 24 foot Ravens at the Coast Guard Academy, Ford overcame a foul-out and mastered winds of over 40 knots to engineer his victory over a strong Yale contingent...
Emil "Bus" Mosbacher, skipper of the victorious Weatherly in last year's America's Cup challenge, presents the trophy for the first Ivy League championship to Carter G. Ford '63, captain of the Crimson sailing team...
During the war, Love served in the navy on a destroyer escort. He finished his military career as a ship's skipper in the Southwest Pacific...
...Guantanamo Naval Base while the Cuba crisis was at its crest, were now back; the Pentagon hoped to have all the dependents returned to Gitmo by Christmas. Considerable satisfaction was found in the fact that the Soviet Union apparently had shipped 42 crated jet bombers homeward from Cuba; the skipper of at least one ship obligingly opened the crates so that Navy air patrolmen could see for themselves...