Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...down, but the strong currents off Cape Cod are a serious threat. Though proof against water pressure in the deepest ocean, Trieste has feeble propulsion. She can creep only four or five miles at about 1.4 m.p.h.; during the 45 minutes that it will take Trieste Skipper Lieut. Commander Donald L. Keach to guide his strange craft to the bottom, unexpected currents may carry her out of sight of the sunken submarine...
Emil Mosbacher Jr., skipper of the yacht Weatherly, winner of the America...
...furies of the southern seas, few are as furious as a U.S. tuna-boat skipper forced to pay up to $8,000 to the government of Ecuador for a one-shot license to drop his nets anywhere within 200 miles of the Ecuadorean coast. Last year, says August Felando, general manager of the American Tuna Boat Association, West Coast skippers were hooked for a cool $500,000 for the privilege of fishing in the 66,000 sq. mi. of blue Pacific Ocean claimed by Ecuador. "The association felt that things were getting worse, with fines and harassments from the Ecuadorean...
...U.R.I. crew was able to show that the boat had a defective centerboard, though, and received a different boat, in which they won the race. The final meet score was U.R.I. 143, Harvard 140, with M.I.T. third (125) and the Coast Guard fourth (106). High-point skipper for the championships was Mike Horn, at 72 points for the B division series. Carter Ford was tied with U.R.I.'s skipper for high-point honors in the A division with 68 points...
Even Radio Peking seemed unable to swallow the idea of hostile attack, announcing only that the government was "attaching great importance" to the sinking. The tone of the broadcast suggested that whatever face the skipper had saved in Japan with his torpedo tale would be quickly dissipated once he came back to face the music in Tsingtao...