Word: skippering
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...newspapers made much of the luck of the crew of the Rofa. They said that it was a miracle for another ship to run across her in the middle of the ocean, and that miracles only happen when a woman is skipper. Meanwhile, Mrs. William Roos, 36, experienced and muscular skipper, was telling her rescuers : "I don't want this thing to be made sensational...
...first trans-Atlantic race since 1905 when the Atlantic, skippered by Capt. Charles Barr, won the Kaiser's Cup by crossing from Sandy Hook to England in 12 days, 4 hrs. 1 min., 19 sec. This year, this same Atlantic, repainted many times and retrimmed, has as skipper the direct descendant of two U. S. Presidents - Charles Francis Adams, 62, brother of the late historian Henry Adams. Skipper Adams, yachtsmen agree, is the canniest amateur salt alive. He sailed the Resolute in the last defense of the America's Cup against Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock...
Grizzliest of the skippers was Capt. Norman Ross, 58, of the Zodiac. As a child he began to fish off Gloucester, Mass., and still prefers to be known as a fisherman rather than a racing skipper. He owns one of the four schooners in Gloucester that scorn to use motor power...
...yacht named Nourmahal (Arabic for "Light of 'My Soul") cut the waters of New York Harbor. The new Nourmahal is the biggest and sleekest of them all-2,000 tons, 264 feet overall, twin-screw Diesel engines developing 3,200 horsepower, speed of 16 knots, all-steel hull. Skipper-owner Vincent Astor, Brother-in-law Prince Obolensky, several friends and crew of 45 had brought her from Kiel, Germany, where she had been built by the firm of Fried & Krupp from plans by Theodore E. Ferris, Manhattan naval architect. She had met some storms...
...Leviathan steamed into New York harbor, last week, her skipper, Captain Harold Cunningham, pounded a table to the delight of ship news reporters and roared: "The theft did not happen aboard my ship. It's all a lot of damned British propaganda...