Word: skippering
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...qualify as a skipper, the novice must pass a relatively simple examination requiring knowledge of knots, elementary rules of the road, and the rudiments of boat-handling. When he has received his "skipper's card," he is then eligible to compete for a place on the varsity, which the officers determine each week on the basis of performances in the practice races...
...week, six miles at sea north of the Oriente coast, when a Cuban gunboat drew alongside the 96-ton American cable-repair schooner Western Union and ordered it into the Cuban port of Baracoa. Well outside Cuban territorial waters, the unprepossessing Western Union moved slowly to comply, while the skipper sent off a quick message that reached the Guantanamo Naval Base...
...Award. In this routine piece of USNonsense-aptly epitomized in the ship's mascot: a turkey-Pat plays a two-striper, second in command on an LST in the peacetime Navy. When not scuttling his principles with a girl reporter (Barbara Eden), Hero Boone consoles a pointy-headed skipper (Dennis O'Keefe) who dearly loves to fish but sadly catches the only thing that seems to swim in the average gagman's Pacific: a brassiere. Whenever he has nothing worse to do, Pat sings a song. The music will not seriously disturb anybody except musicians...
When every other skipper thought the 30-knot Chesapeake Bay Wind to much for spinnakers, Crimson helmsman John Marshall called for his parachute and, despite near disaster, skippered the varsity and a 40-ft. yawl to a stries tie for first with Navy in one of the most amazing last legs in the history of the McMillan Cup regatta...
...patrolling the Mediterranean, the U.S. Sixth Fleet hosted a junketing group of West German dignitaries, plus two retired U.S. flag officers. Admiral Jesse Oldendorf, 74, a hero of the historic Battle for Leyte Gulf, and Vice Admiral Calvin Durgin, 68, also a battle-tried World War II task-group skipper. When the time came for the guests to shift from the supercarrier Forrestal to the missile cruiser Springfield, a high line was rigged, and the vessels slowed to 15 knots. "Which seat will you take?" asked Durgin, as their turn came on the double bosun's chair. "The front...