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...teams, first-place Connecticut College and the Harvard runners-up, finished well enough to qualify for the ICSA national sloop championship...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Qualifies for Nationals | 9/20/2005 | See Source »

Last year, the team boasted second- and fourth-place finishes at singlehanded nationals in both men’s and women’s races. The team is also preparing for sloop qualifiers, sailed in larger, four-hand boats...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing Kicks off Fall Season | 9/14/2005 | See Source »

...name our shuttles for our aspirations--Atlantis, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour--the risks built into the very idea. Columbia, the fleet's pioneer, was named after an old Boston sloop that was the first American ship to circumnavigate the globe, carrying a cargo of otter skins to China. Any risk much repeated can become routine, and so it was for shuttle flights, except when they become tragic. That's when we are reminded that knowledge doesn't come easy and that many consequences are unintended, especially when we set off on an adventure...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seven Astronauts, One Fate | 7/28/2005 | See Source »

MARRIED. Simon Le Bon, 27, lead singer of the rock group Duran Duran and aspiring sailboat racer, who almost died last summer when his 77-ft. sloop capsized during a race; and Yasmin Parvaneh, 21, half-Iranian British model; in Oxford, England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 6, 1986 | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...ENGLAND SLOOP SERIES...

Author: By Samuel C. Scott, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Sailing's Strategy Leads To Berth in 2006 Sloops | 4/12/2005 | See Source »

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