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...team also lacks senior Vince Porter, the ICSA/Vanguard singlehanded champion and All-American co-ed skipper, who is spending the semester in Rome...
Harvard placed second overall behind Boston College. Devlin, sailing with sophomore crew Christina Dahlman, placed first in the A-division. Junior skipper Jessica Baker, sailing with senior Jenny Wong, placed fourth in the B-division...
...second Harvard co-ed contingent went over to Boston University for the Hatch Brown Regatta. Rain allowed for only eight races on Saturday, and a cool, sunny Sunday allowed eight more. Harvard’s squad finished 15th in an 18 team field won by Yale. Sophomore Matt Knowles skippered the A-division—with junior Mallory Griemann crew—to an 11th place finish, including one first-place finish. Sophomore skipper Kristen Lynch, along with classmate and crew Cassandra Niemi, finished 18th in the B-division...
...Coastwatch surveillance plane of a suspected foreign fishing vessel (FFV) in Australian waters. Coastwatch has sent Canberra images of the boat showing crew retrieving longlines off the Duncan Islands group, 30 nautical mi. (55 km) north-west of Thursday Island. On the bridge of the 38-m vessel, the skipper accepts the task. He informs crew members of the mission and asks for a chart of the course. Leaning back in his seat, feet plonked on what anyone but a mariner would call the dashboard, Cummins jiggles a joystick in the armrest that operates the boat's flaps and fins...
...tropical sky, night falls almost instantly, and the navigational instruments now cast a greenish glow around the skipper. A fixed-wing "Islander" heads back to base at Horn Island as a Coastwatch helicopter (or "helo") code-named Lima 51 flies in to assist in the search; a forward-looking infra-red (flir) detection system in the helo's nose checks out the hides that have been cut in the mangroves around the island. No luck. Returning to base, the helo calls in to report that it's clocked a vessel 10 nautical mi. away, at 108 degrees. There's restrained...