Word: skippers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Though they agree on all their major conclusions, Bucher and Armbrister confront Pueblo's story from different perspectives. Bucher views events through two narrow apertures: his own experience as a thoroughly conventional officer, and his status as the new skipper of a small, unimportant ship. Armbrister, who traveled and interviewed widely on the Pueblo story, provides a less intimate but much broader account...
...races called the Observation Trials. As it happened, some of the most telling observations about this year's competition could be made right at dockside in Newport, R.I. Late into the night, Naval Architect Olin Stephens was seen tinkering with Valiant, his latest 12-meter design. Near by, Skipper-Designer Charlie Morgan Jr. was hard at work seeking to improve his golden-hulled Heritage. At another slip, the crew of Helmsman Bill Picker's Intrepid lounged on the sloop's deck, sporting green-and-white buttons that declared PICKER IS QUICKER...
Valiant, under Skipper Bob McCullough, was the next victim. In their first match, McCullough sloppily cut off Picker's boat in the preliminary maneuvering and was disqualified. Next time out, Valiant took the lead but was soon overhauled by Intrepid in a furious tacking duel; from then on, Intrepid was never headed, as she repeatedly outfooted Valiant on the windward legs of the course to win by 2 min. 14 sec. Two more times Intrepid and Picker proved quicker-by the combined times of 4 min. 20 sec. Only in the last race was McCullough able to salvage something...
...plagued by steering problems and a tendency to surge erratically in heavy seas. "We seem to be moving in spurts, and we don't yet know the reason for it," he says. Though he and Stephens modified Valiant before and during the trials, the 49-year-old skipper allows that more "substantial changes" still have to be made on the sails, the rigging and the hull. A seasoned competitor, McCullough is still very much in the race even though he no longer sounds like No. 1. "Maybe," he muttered after one defeat, "we went for too radical a design...
...whores at $35 to $100 a trick to supplement their incomes. The high rate of lesbianism among strippers-which the girls estimated at 50% to 75%-is further evidence that the stripper still nurses the feeling of paternal rejection she experienced in childhood. "Strippers go gay," said one of Skipper's and McCaghy's subjects, "because they have little chance to meet nice guys...