Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...elimination races held at the Coast Guard Academy in New London, Conn. on Sunday, skippers Tony Legett and Scott Hundahl qualified for the New England Sloop Championships. Legett finished just one point behind last year's New England Champion, James McCreary from Tufts...
...great Yankee skipper Joshua Slocum used only the simplest of navigational instruments-a compass, a sextant and his famous "dollar clock"-when he sailed his 37-ft. Spray round the world alone from 1895 to 1898. The solitary skipper of a spanking new sloop called the Oxy will find his life at sea far easier than Slocum's when he sails in a singlehanded race across the Atlantic next year. If he wants to relax and leave the helm, all he will have to do is flip a switch on an electronic self-steering device; day or night...
...event started out inauspiciously enough in the morning, as the three skippers from each school got underway from Community Boathouse in the sloop-rigged Mercuries. Despite the strong breeze and a few overturned boats, the host race committee from Northeastern was able to get in three races in each of the three divisions before lunch...
...Radcliffe squad, which started its season last Saturday by hosting and winning the Shrew Sloop Trophy by 42 points over second-place Jackson, will be at Yale next weekend attempting to qualify for the Nationals...
...quartet of Crimson "A" division sailors placed fourth in a field of six boats in the second elimination round of the New England Intercollegiate sloop championships Saturday...