Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Throughout the frost-biting season, the varsity sailing team has been constantly runner-up to victory, but has emerged with honors only twice. This weekend however, the Crimson skippers are favored to win the Northeastern collegiate Sloop Championship and perhaps a little bit more...
Carter Ford and a three-man crew won all the races at the Coast Guard Academy Saturday to quality for the finals in the NEISA sloop Championships. Although disqualified after a first-race win, Ford skippered his 34-ft. Raven to victory in the next five heats to carry the day with 35 points...
...manufacturer and importer of sailboats, George D. O'Day '45, captured honors for the United States in a 5.5, a 32-foot sloop with a 40-foot mast, whose 200-square-foot spinnaker his crew could set in 6 seconds and kill in two or three...
...loving co-Favorite Chichester packed his 39^-ft. Gipsy Moth III with potatoes, tomato soup, baked beans, wine, beer and whisky, took along a green smoking jacket and a red cummerbund to dress for dinner, and attached a wind vane to his rudder so the 13-ton sloop would steer itself while he slept. Asked to name his chief hazard, Chichester replied: "Being run down by an ocean liner...
...real SS(N) Nautilus and her nuclear sisters of the modern U.S. Navy need better air, and are designed to stay submerged for months on end. In Naval Research Reviews the Naval Research Laboratory tells how their little worlds are kept almost as fresh as a sloop tacking into the wind...