Word: sloop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Biggest sailboat in the show is Pearson's fiber-glass sloop, the Alberg 35. It has a 30-h.p. auxiliary engine, a loft. beam, draws 5 ft. Price...
...Silva made one last show of bravado, announced: "We will fight to the end." But Silva's ill-equipped, 3,000-man army, which Nehru had said was "massing menacingly," had other ideas. Only real show of Portuguese resistance was put up by the 1,783-ton sloop Afonso de Albuquerque. Steaming out of Marmagão harbor, the little frigate exchanged fire with an Indian cruiser and two destroyers for 45 minutes. Her captain badly wounded, the crippled ship was finally beached. Less than two days after Indian troops crossed the frontier, the Portuguese surrendered. The night after...
Carter Ford led the Crimson sailing team to its second consecutive triumph the New England Sloop Championships at New London last weekend, becoming the first skipper ever to the tournament's Lawrence A. White Trophy twice...
Other top sailing colleges represented in the Sloop Championships were MIT, Tufts, Williams, and Holy Cross. The seven teams entered represented the top qualifiers among 21 colleges in three elimination rounds...
Carter Ford will defend the White Trophy for the New England Sloop Championship tomorrow and Sunday against the hosting Coast Guard Academy, B.U., Holy Cross, M.I.T., Tufts, and Williams. Of Ford's three crewmen, Pete Drake, Rock Pring, and Mike Horn, the latter two were with him when he sailed away from B.U. in a playoff match last fall...