Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Overcoming bad breaks, and violent weather conditions, the Harvard sailing team won the New England Sloop Championship for the third successive year Sunday in New London, Connecticut...
Sunday, the wind was blowing from southwest at speeds approaching forty miles per hour. The Crimson had getting their sloop moving in the day's first race, and consequently finished third behind the previous day's leaders, Rhode Island and Yale. Harvard how fallen dangerously far behind in the point totals, and needed to do extremely well in the last three races in order to retain the championship...
...Saturday, Carter Ford and his tested crew of Mike Horn, Peter Drake, and Rock Pring swept to a first place finish in trials for the New England Sloop Championships at the New London base of the Coast Guard Academy...
...heart. The balmy 15-knot breeze had be come a tearing, 25-knot northwest wind; heavy swells rolled across the green Atlantic, and off to the horizon spray-laden whitecaps filled the scene. It was Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Gretel's weather, the same strong winds that made the beautiful white-hulled sloop fly in home waters off Sydney and her crew made the most...
...first race was, predictably, a win for Weatherly by a margin that discouraged the Aussie challengers. In 15-20 knot winds off Newport the sleek American sloop romped to a 3:46 victory...