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...make his fortune and then go for a good long sail. With the same daring and dynamic enthusiasm that characterized his younger brother, the late, great Hobart ("Hobey") Baker, who has been immortalized since his Wartime death as the greatest U. S. college hockey player of all time. Skipper Baker, accompanied by two sons and a crew of three, had just completed a 30,000-mile cruise from Hong Kong...
Harvard's dinghy crew of Stephen H. Squibb '40, skipper, and Arthur W. Page Jr. '40 came up with a closing burst in the last two races to take third place from Williams in the final standings of the races on the Charles River basin yesterday...
...Skipper is fixing a short circuit below," said the Vagabond and grew cold all over. He wanted to kick himself for being such a fool as to forget to turn them on again. "They'll be on in a minute," he added shakily...
...held the boat right on the course, never budging a degree, even with the swell that was beginning to rise. Night was falling, so he switched on the compass light. He thought of the skipper lying in his bunk below, staring up at his compass. He certainly couldn't growl about the course this time. An even breeze was blowing the number one jib-topsail gracefully to leeward while the moon made diagonal shadows on the curved sails...
...rising air currents along the shoulder of a hill); cold front soaring (on the brow of a thunderhead); and thermal soaring (on rising currents of air in the open). So specialized are these techniques that a skillful soarer looks upon power flyers with the same superiority that a sailboat skipper feels towards a motor-boater...