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...actually sung the song for a year or two (or five...not since ’61?). And the more I tried to sing, the less I knew, and the sorer I got. All I could do was loll there, dead in the water like some windless sloop. But didn’t I have a right to these words? To get to sing them like everybody else?I looked right, past Daddy (warbling away), and saw the pew stuffed to its end. So I looked left. It was full but not crammed.And then, over the thundering third verse...
WOMEN’S SLOOP SHREW TROPHY...
Harvard sent four of its sailors to Boston College as its No. 7 women’s team earned a fourth-place finish at the Women’s Sloop Shrew Trophy on Sunday. In the A division, senior skipper Jessica Baker and freshman crew Lauren Brants tied for fifth place in the ten-team field, while the blossoming freshman tandem of skipper Roberta Steele and crew Christina Cordeiro finished behind only MIT and Tufts, earning third place in the B division. The team’s strong performance promised to help its overall ranking; seventh was the lowest...
...winds were very shifty. Most schools don’t get a chance to practice in those conditions.” The two regattas were only half of the events the sailing team participated in over the weekend. The Crimson’s boat finished tenth at the ICSA Sloop National Championships in Richland, Michigan. Harvard also competed in Rhode Island in the Nickerson Trophy, the New England freshman championship, where it finished sixth. By winning the Schell Trophy, the coed team was able to qualify for the Atlantic Coast Championship in Maryland two weekends from now. The women?...
...Typically we don’t do the sloop championship. We’ve tried to qualify a few times in the past, but Vinny’s a pretty good sloop sailor and in his senior year, we wanted to try something else,” Johnson said. “Vinny skippers in a sloop, I crew on bigger boats, Matt and Robbie can crew, so we have all the pieces there, but we’ve never put it together before...