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Fiber-glass boats dominated the show (more than 200 boats displayed). Some 40% of all small pleasure boats being built are of fiber glass; last year alone, plastic boat production jumped from 85,000 to 130,000 boats. Among the plastic sail fleet: a 17-ft. Thistle sloop ($1,875 without sails), Cape Cod Shipbuilding's 23-ft. Marlin day sailor ($5,500 without sails), the 25-ft. New Horizons auxiliary sloop ($8,950 with sails), and the 41-ft. Bounty II with a new yawl rig to improve its racing potential. Newest members of the flotilla...
...first place in either the New England sloop championships today or the 38th Greater Boston Dinghy Championships tomorrow could restore the Crimson to the leading position it held only three weeks...
...sloop trials, the Crimson has a slight edge over Holy Cross, Middlebury, Tufts, and most other entrants, but may have a hard time getting the best of the Coast Guard. The Cadets' drop to fourth place in last Sunday's preliminary on the Charles River Basin augurs well for Crimson success, however...
...rest of the team's fall schedule is as follows: Oct. 10, Greater Boston Freshman Championship and NEISA racing championship; Oct. 17, NEISA sloop championship; Oct. 18, Greater Boston Dinghy Championship and Freshman Octagonal; Oct. 25, Pentagonal Rally at Brown; Oct. 31, Freshman individual crew championship; Nov. 8, NEISA invitational; Nov. 14-15, NEISA Team racing Championships; Nov. 21-22, Middle Atlantic Fall Regatta; Nov. 27-29, Midwest Thanksgiving regatta; Dec. 12-13, Potomac Frostbite regatta...
...squadron including Bonhomme Richard (40 guns), frigates Alliance (36 guns) and Pallas (26 guns), and brig Vengeance (12 guns), Jones was cruising off Yorkshire's Flamborough Head when at 3 o'clock one afternoon he sighted a Baltic merchant fleet, escorted by frigate Serapis (50 guns) and sloop of war Countess of Scarborough (20 guns...