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...Australia's $3 million entry in the America's Cup trials broke in half in rough seas off San Diego and sank to the bottom of the Pacific. All 17 crew members were rescued. Team official sent an older boat into the races to replace the sunken sloop...
...Harvard sailing team set out for the Sloop National Sailing Championships November 18-20 in St. Petersburg Florida, the team could only hope that the waters and the winds of Tampa Bay would bring them good fortune...
More than a year ago, Francois, his parents and 116 other Haitians had set out with a desperate sense of hope aboard a leaking sloop called Dieu Veut (God Wants). For two days they rolled and pitched across the rough stretch of sea between Haiti and Cuba that sailors call the Windward Passage. They had left their homes in Petit-Trou-de-Nippes, a town of 1,000 perched on the shore of Haiti's impoverished southern claw, provisioned with only two bags of rice and a single 50-gal. barrel of water. Even at sea they continued to take...
...youth, the community elected to pour its savings, its hopes and its most promising citizens into a single boat to America. Selling everything but their beds, the town cobbled together $1,650 and persuaded its wealthiest resident, who runs the local numbers game, to "buy" a 30-ft. sloop from police...
...SAILING HOSTS SLOOP SHREW, 12 NOON...