Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three more scrubbings from American Eagle and Constellation, the new girls in town. Officials of the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee decided to waste no more time. Hopping into a launch after the third defeat, they motored out to extend their thanks and regrets to Columbia's Skipper Walter Podolak and Nefertiti 's Ted Hood. That cleared the decks for the long-awaited head-to-head duel between Eagle and Constellation...
CORNELIUS SHIELDS ON SAILING, by Cornelius Shields. A blueprint for winning races-in a runabout or a twelve-meter-as well as a frank revelation of the author, who at 70 is the most successful skipper in the country...
...been- shot down within point-blank range of the island shore batteries, and the Boyd was bent on rescuing him. Suddenly, two 6-in. shells crashed into the forward .engine room, destroying half of the ship's power. Shellburst jets of water blossomed everywhere. The Boyd's skipper, Lieut. Commander Ulysses Simpson Grant Sharp Jr., unable to find the pilot, heeled the crippled destroyer about and began a nightmarish slow-motion escape through waters alive with explosions. "Knowing that the gunners would attempt to correct their fire after each miss," Sharp recalled later, "I decided to chase...
...wind is important; so is the cut of the sails as well as the skill and care of the men who designed and built the boat. But to Corny Shields a racing sailboat-the only kind in which he is interested-is driven mainly by the skipper's will to win. As just about the most successful racing skipper of this century (TIME cover, July 27, 1953), Corny Shields has, inevitably, the most indomitable will to win. "Racing," he admits frankly in this autobiography and sailor's guidebook, "is the aspect of sailing that has gripped...
...aspirant must begin a year or so before he is born, by picking his parents right. They must raise the child with at least a summer home on river, lake or sea front. They need not be rich, though that helps. (Shields picked a rich father.) The aspiring skipper of America's Cup yachts must begin sailing-and sailing to win-early in his grade school years...