Word: skippering
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Once soon after the U.S. entered the War, Skipper Claret was taking the Minnehaha to Britain with a heavy cargo of TNT. Several days out of New York he received a radiogram from the U.S. Navy Department to the effect that a bomb hidden aboard his ship was timed to explode that very noon. Captain Claret ordered the crew to make a search drill, did not tell them why. When they failed to find anything, he stood anxiously on the bridge, waited watch in hand. Noon came & went. Nothing happened. Claret had about decided that it was a false alarm...
William Burton, Hymer's assistant, says it was the bottle of whiskey the skipper of the City of Suzannah sent down to them that gave them strength to complete their rescue job in such masterly fashion...
...bitterness and suspicion. That the tradition of rancor had stoutly survived the 31-year period in which the late Sir Thomas Lipton made five amiably unsuccessful attempts to win the Cup was evident last fortnight when Rainbow completed its defense against Thomas Octave Murdoch Sopwith's Endeavour. Skipper Sopwith sharply expressed his dissatisfaction when the New York Yacht Club's Race Committee refused to hear his protest after the fourth race. Both Rainbow and Endeavour finished the sixth race with protest flags flying so that it was hours before anyone knew that Rainbow had won the series. Last...
...whether the Committee should have heard the Sopwith protest and Designer Charles G. Nicholson of Endeavour went home disgusted, fair-minded yachtsmen had no trouble reaching a conclusion about the historic truths of the 1934 series: Endeavour, as a boat, was definitely faster than Rainbow. Mr. Sopwith, as a skipper who took the blame for "all my wrong tactics," was decidedly less able than Harold Vanderbilt. And Rainbow's crack crew outsmarted Endeavour's amateurs at nearly every turn...
Sixth Race. Before the start, Skipper Sopwith issued a statement indicating that he was by no means satisfied with the Race Committee's ruling on the first protest. Expressing "great disappointment" at the treatment he had received when the Committee failed to "take heed" of the "sailing tactics" of Skipper Vanderbilt, he intimated he would set sail from U. S. shores shortly after the series was over...