Word: skippering
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...fish spilled out onto the deck, he found the net had also caught something else - a large, yellow-brown lump of solidified mustard gas from World War II. "It was a huge piece, weighing about 15 kg, and with no traces of the metal casing," says Michael Jepsen, skipper of the Soraya. Aware of the danger and following established procedure, Jepsen alerted the military authorities on Bornholm, who boarded the trawler, inspected the poison and decided it should be tipped back into the sea in a designated dumping area. Branick, though, was in a bad way. "I was fine until...
Mike Zani, 33, a private equity investor and former professional sailor from Dallas, has met many of his closest friends through sailing, including several women. "Sharing that lifestyle really brings people together," he says. "In a sailing race, it doesn't matter if you get beaten by a female skipper. You treat that boat like any other boat...
...sailed with him and cruised with him and he was a superb skipper and a most genial companion,” Perkins said...
...been leaned on more and more heavily by Walsh. Going into last weekend’s series with Dartmouth, Walsh put Ronz on call for emergency relief duty, an honor reserved for the John Birtwells and Ben Crocketts of years past. Then, after the division clincher, the Crimson skipper confirmed the obvious, calling Ronz the most effective of Harvard’s pitchers right now and all but naming him the No. 1 starter for the Ivy League Championship Series against Princeton...
...such success is nothing new—Bischoff and Kikuchi began sailing together four years ago when they were the Crimson’s standout freshman boat. The years of sailing together has given them a cohesion that other skipper-crew combinations may not be able to develop...