Word: sloops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NEISA Sloop Cham...
...years later, he painted The Gulf Stream, moving this apprehension from animal to man. A black sailor lies on the afterdeck of a dismasted sloop, adrift and rudderless in the deep Caribbean blue. Enormous sharks circle the boat. Their ominousness is reinforced by the zone of black water from which they rise. (The catalog, rather absurdly, suggests that celibate Homer was invoking that hoary phantom of the Freudian couch, the vagina dentata. This could make sense only to an art historian who has never been near a live shark.) On the horizon, a square-rigger sails indifferently...
Also, Sunday the Harvard men's sailing team led by skipper Dan Parks placed a modest third in the New England Sloop Championship at the Coast Guard Academy at New London, Connecticut. A first or second place finish would have qualified the team for the nationals...
Eight years later, the little island country-with a population smaller than that of Los Angeles-has mounted an almost $20 million challenge, complete with the requisite space-age, computer-loaded sloop, to wrest the 144-year-old silver ewer from its U.S. berth. The grudge match between Team New Zealand and Team Dennis Conner began last Saturday in the first race of a best-of-nine series, with a resounding victory by the Kiwis aboard Black Magic I. With a possible two more weeks of sailing in the famously fickle breezes off San Diego, the final outcome is still...
...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...