Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Crimson yawl nosed out M.I.T. yesterday at Annapolis, but M.I.T.'s two-day total in the yachting races gave them the Macmillan Cup. Harvard finished fifth with a total score of 11 3/4 points...
...Saturday's race the Crimson yawl was disqualified for tacking too close to the finish line and ramming the Cornell craft. Brown took second in the races, while Princeton came in third. Drexel, Penn State, and Dartmouth tied for fourth...
Prominent on the entry list are six entries from Great Britain, two from Argentina, as well as Henry C. Taylor's 71-foot, two time winning yawl, "Baruna," which took first in 1938 and 1948, and Howard Fuller's 57-foot sloop "Gesture," winner...
Also competing will be five vessels from the United States Naval Academy yacht squadron and the 68-foot yawl "Tabor Boy," training ship for Tabor Academy in Marion...
Crimson sailor Dick Braisted led his eight-man crew to a final sixthplace position in the two-day McMillan Cup sailing competition at Annapolis over the weekend. Braisted skippered the 42-feet Navy yawl "Active" into third place in yesterday's race after finishing ninth in the field of ten in Saturday's race...