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...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...
Gyllenhammar has skippered Volvo with the same assurance with which he pilots his 31-ft. sloop Amanda III. Almost immediately after taking over, he replaced a centralized management structure with four semiautonomous divisions, each of which is responsible for its own profits. He also expanded production of trucks, marine and industrial engines and other products to a point where they account for 43% of Volvo's sales. Pretax profits reached $90 million during the first half of this year, despite a 19% decline in U.S. sales of Volvo cars...