Word: skippering
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...magnified technicality may sever racing relations between American and Canadian fishermen off Halifax. Though there was no question of her superiority when the boats crossed the finish line, Bluenose, Canadian defender, was declared by the judges loser in the second of three races scheduled with Columbia, American challenger, because Skipper Angus Walters failed to pass the Lighthouse Bank buoy to seaward...
Small wonder attention is being given to the commercial possibilities of such craft. Commander Frank McCrary, skipper of the ZR1, sees " a revolution in transportation technique." Captain Anton Heinen, German test pilot and consultant in the construction of the ZR1, predicts the elimination of disasters due to poor piloting and improper construction-the Captain has carried 100,000 passengers in the air without a scratch-and the ousting of ocean liners by dirigibles. Certainly an air journey of five days from San Francisco to New Zealand instead of 22 by sea is tempting...
...made with the greatest caution and care. But there is no lack of ambitious work to come. Collection of data for the purposes of commercial airship navigation, flights to the North Pole, trips around the world, the surveying of hitherto inaccessible regions are in store for the airship skipper and his lucky crew...
They sailed northward, 20 Chinese, a skipper, and a crew of four? two white, two black. They reached "Rum Row" off New York. They waited several days. There was no opportunity to reach the shore undetected. A woman came out in a rum runner's launch. She went to the skipper's cabin. An interval. The skipper and the woman lowered the schooner's dory and departed. The ship's papers, the money the Chinese had paid were gone...
...fight was over. The bodies of two white men, two Negroes and five Chinese were rolled into the sea. Calm once more. Several of the Chinese were wounded; the rest weak from privation. Without a skipper, without a crew, the Mary Beatrice drifted into Quarantine...