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...Friis competition Harvard sailed disastrously. The Crimson finished sixth out of seven teams and in the course of the two days managed to capsize twice--once in A and once in B action. In A racing Clem Wood, crewed by Tim Black, finished consistently fourth or fifth, but B skipper Chris Middendorf was too erratic, finishing high in some races but languishing at the bottom of the standings in others...
Veteran sailor Barbie Grant will skipper the A division boat for Radcliffe with Marie Roehm as her crew. Janice Stroud and captain Kathy Angell will alternate as skipper and crew on the B division boat. That foursome is the same one which brought Radcliffe the national championship last year...
...late 1940s, Mila Brener and Ya'acov Meridor would have seemed the least likely candidates imaginable for the job of rescuing the sinking British shipbuilding industry. Both men were then Zionists fighting British forces in Palestine-the Russian-born Brener as skipper of a blockade-busting refugee ship, the Polish-born Meridor as deputy commander of the bomb-wielding Irgun underground and sometime inmate of British prison camps in Kenya and Eritrea. But last week, Brener and Meridor's little-known Haifa-based firm, Maritime Fruit Carriers, completed placement of roughly $700 million in orders and options...
Like any good skipper, Bruynzeel prepared his 53-ft. ketch Stormy for every contingency. Unable to pack an intensive-cardiac-care unit on board because it was too heavy, he did the next best thing by adding Nurse Diana Goodliffe, 33, to the crew. A member of Dr. Christiaan Barnard's heart-transplant team, she came prepared with equipment like an oscilloscope to check the pattern of Bruynzeel's heartbeat and the culinary qualifications to serve as ship's cook. Once at sea, says Bruynzeel, "Diana never forgot to give me my pills six times...
...Bruynzeel defied doctors' orders? "Nobody can order me around after I set my mind on something," he said. Announcing that he is going to sail off to a new home he is building on the Seychelles Islands in the Indian Ocean, the jaunty little skipper looked more tanned and fit than when he had left Capetown. The race, he confided, was "a cure in itself...