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Considering its third-place showing last weekend at the Hoyt Trophy regatta, where Harvard finished nine points behind Navy and Brown, and revealed the sometimes inconsistent racing of Crimson substitute skipper John Pernick, Harvard's showing was more than impressive...
Psst! Want to be skipper of your own ship? Up and down all three U.S. coastlines, plenty are available, as boatmakers are buffeted by one of the worst sailboat gluts in memory. No accurate estimate of the number of vessels for sale is available, but price cuts of 25% to 30%, particularly for secondhand sailboats in the $100,000-and-under range, have suddenly become common. Says Bill Stewart, owner of a boat brokerage in Key Biscayne, Fla.: "The bottom has just fallen out of sales...
...squabble comes at a time when the U.S. tuna fleet has made substantial progress in reducing dolphin deaths. Tuna fishermen say that between 98% and 99% of the animals captured in nets are released unharmed, and the tuna-boat association has instituted the "Golden Porpoise Award" for the skipper with the fewest dolphin kills in a season...
Dolphins, which are among the more intelligent mammals, seem to have recognized the tuna-fishing threat. As recently as 15 years ago, says Veteran Tuna Skipper Harold Medina, they could be rounded up easily with a couple of skiffs propelled by small outboards. Sometimes they would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight...
...Turner, 47, victorious skipper of the 1977 America's Cup, long- suffering proprietor of the Atlanta Braves baseball and Hawks basketball teams and minor-league historian. "When I was a kid, I read a lot," he recalls. "History was my main subject." An adventurer "working outside official circles," he puts himself in mind of Alexander the Great, though he can also go on about Lord Nelson and Jiminy Cricket. "Who is this Jiminy Cricket?" inquired a Soviet journalist last week, and the man's eyes grew at the rate of Pinocchio's nose when he heard Turner explain, "Jiminy Cricket...