Word: windwards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course was a windward-leeward twice-around variety, and two spinnaker sets were necessary in each race. At no time did the Crimson reach the upwind mark in better than third place, but Ford took the downwind stretches at speeds up to 13 knots, assuring a high finish in each race...
Harvard closed the gap on the second windward leg, however, and championship spinnaker work around the market gave the Crimson an invincible lead and eventually victory in the race...
...Trinidad-Tobago Barbados, the Leeward and Windward Islands and Jamaica...
Died. James Amory Sullivan, 88, architect and painter who expatriated himself to Europe for 30 years to restore the works of the Renaissance, then chucked it all in 1950 to lead a party of seven other reluctant socialites on an abortive, civilization-fleeing cruise to the Windward Islands; of a heart attack, in Winchendon, Mass. Proclaimed Sullivan, as the schooner Blue Goose glided into the horizon: "We're fed up [with society]. We are tired of pretense and the false way of life." The idyl lasted six months...
Galvão ordered the Santa Maria to change course and turn east toward St. Lucia, one of Britain's Windward Islands. At 10 a.m. Galvao summoned the passengers to the tapestried first-class lounge, where the seizure was explained in Portuguese and Spanish, with an English resumé added for the benefit of 38 U.S. tourists...