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DIED. Cornelius Shields, 86, prominent Wall Street banker who was known in yachting circles as the Gray Fox of Long Island Sound because of his wily ways in skippering sailboats to victories; in New Rochelle, N.Y. A teetotaler from St. Paul, Shields and his brother Paul started the Shields & Co. investment firm in 1923 that eventually became Bache Halsey Stuart Shields. Sailing was Shields' ruling passion, and the first North American sailing championship, in 1952, was one of his many triumphs. A heart attack forced him to stop racing competitively in 1956, but he returned briefly to skipper...
...motor boat made its way up the Charles, its skipper oblivious to the racing shells around it, is a moot point. But after being called every foul name imaginable by fans and the rowers returning to their docks from the finish of the lightweight eight race (which St. Catharine's Rowing Club of Canada won with an unofficial time of 15:23.1), the skipper of the pleasure boat threw a line to a passing kayaker, who then towed the boat out of the racing lane...
...Division boat of skipper Rony Sebok '83 and Deidre Wilde '82 and the B Division boat of skipper Meredith Stelling '82 and Liz Miller '82, scored well enough in six races Saturday and five races Sunday over the one-mile course, to have a comfortable margin of victory over second-place Dartmouth, followed by Brown...
...skipper of the 9,000-hp. oceangoing tug Cavalier and his crew of seven are part of a convoy of tugs and barges making the hazardous trip from the Pacific Northwest to the oilfields around Prudhoe Bay in Alaska. Once a year, for up to six weeks, the Arctic ice pack crumbles away from the Alaskan coast, giving the oil companies their only chance to transport equipment too large to be carried by airplane or truck from Anchorage, more than 600 miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening...
Most of the tug crews will wait anxiously for the now-empty barges to be rehitched so that they can set sail for Seattle. But for Kardonsky, the most experienced skipper in the fleet, a more savage task remains. The Cavalier has to tow one last load of equipment to Prudhoe Bay. The tug will return to Wainwright, hook up with a bargeload of pipes from Japan and once more swing east. Feeling the menacing bite of the chill September air, the crew will be praying harder than usual that the Arctic not mistake Kardonsky's nerve for defiance...