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...looks like another uncertain year for the Harvard Yachting Club. In the wake of last Sunday's disappointing second in the Coast Guard Quadrangular Invitational Regatta the Club faces two crucial races this weekend. Saturday the sailors enter the first round of the New England Sloop Sailing Championships, and the next day host Yale and Princeton for the Big Three Title Series...
...Crimson's success on Sunday will depend to a large extent on how the team fares the day before, when they return to New London for the New England Sloop Championships. Ford will skipper a Raven crew which includes Peter Drake, Mike Horn, and Rock Pring. Ford skippered the crew which won last year's championship, and the pressure is on for the Crimson crew this year. Ford hopes skillful spinnaker work will make the difference in this year's competition. Also racing in this first heat will be boats from Babson, B.U., the Coast Guard Academy, Middlebury, Northeastern...
...practice hours will probably mean a rise in the quality of the varsity--from good to almost excellent. Despite adverse weather conditions and bad breaks last fall, the varsity managed to turn in a more than creditable record and capped off the season with the New England Intercollegiate sloop championships...
...records of repair dated 1853 through 1855 state that the Constellation has the original keel, frames from six foot upward from the keel, ballast, and stem. It does state that the old vessel was taken down to bare structure and rebuilt as a sloop of 24 guns. It was pointed out to me that in 1852 the ship was placed in drydock to check her underside and that it was found that a false keel should have been made as her old keel was badly warped or bogged. I found that in July and August of 1853 the false keel...
...Democratic Convention, she had a stockade fence erected around her Hyannisport home, as much to fence out the neighboring Kennedy small fry and animals as the prying public. The proof that she had won her intramural war of independence was evident on a recent cruise aboard Jack's sloop Victura, when Jack and the Radziwills sat with her in the stern, while she passed around oeufs en gelee and vin rosé from her hamper, and her Kennedy in-laws sprawled in the bow and lunched on peanut butter sandwiches and Cokes from a picnic basket...