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...harbor was not some weathered trawler, but the Donara II, a 34-foot yacht owned by Andy Stewart, Commodore of the Arbroath Sailing and Boating Club. "It's mixed emotions," says Alex Smith, a former Arbroath fisherman who sold his boat last year, and who offered "Pleasure Cruises with Skipper Alex Smith" on a small craft during this year's Seafest. "It's good to see the harbor busy. But Seafest is supposed to be about fishermen, and there's no fishermen left...
...John S. McCain in their honor. His grandfather, known as Slew, was a Navy legend, an innovative strategist and a relentless warrior who dropped dead four days after attending the 1945 Japanese surrender on the U.S.S. Missouri. McCain's father Jack was a highly decorated World War II submarine skipper who rose to command U.S. naval forces in the Pacific and ordered the bombing of Hanoi despite the danger to his prisoner-of-war son. Jack was a workaholic and an alcoholic, and he wasn't home much, but he tried to instill in John his greatest-generation values...
After three years of playing second skipper on the Harvard sailing team, senior Kyle Kovacs finally got a chance to step into the spotlight. And boy, did he shine. The former captain of the Crimson squad racked up honor after honor in his final season, capping the fall campaign with a victory at the NEISA Singlehanded Championship. With the departure of his longtime training partner Clay Johnson ’07, a four-time winner of the NEISA singlehanded event, Kovacs stepped up admirably and kept the title in Cambridge for the ninth straight year...
...shock, because our team has a great tradition of qualifying. The goal isn’t just to qualify, it’s to get to nationals and do well.” The team ended the season ranked No. 12 nationally. Led by the A-division pair of skipper Watson and freshman crew Meghan Wareham, the Harvard women recorded five top-five team finishes on the year, and like the co-ed squad, the team’s youth offers great promise for the future. In the fall season, the Crimson recorded five team victories to set the pace...
...disallowed, giving Harvard sole possession of third place and a ticket to nationals, which will be held from May 30-June 1 in Newport, R.I.Boston College and host Brown will join the Crimson at nationals.Harvard fielded three boats at the regatta. The team’s pairs were senior skipper Kyle Kovacs and crew Dolbec, skipper Garrity and junior crew Kerry Anne Bradford, and freshman skipper Alan Palmer and junior crew Lauren Brants.The secret to the Crimson’s success? Despite their youth and relative inexperience, the team kept a level head even in intense competition...