Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Already this term, the team has exhibited its prizewinning calibre. Over vacation, eight members of the varsity sailed a 44 ft. yawl to a tie for first with Navy in the historic McMillan Cup regatta. Last weekend in the official esason opener, skippers Ford and Lehmann and drews Horn and Lew Natenshon missed winning the Boston University Trophy by three points (BU 90, Harvard 87, Yale...
When every other skipper thought the 30-knot Chesapeake Bay Wind to much for spinnakers, Crimson helmsman John Marshall called for his parachute and, despite near disaster, skippered the varsity and a 40-ft. yawl to a stries tie for first with Navy in one of the most amazing last legs in the history of the McMillan Cup regatta...
Eight members of the Yacht Club will begin to tune up a 44-ft. yawl on Chesapeake Bay today in preparation for the McMillan Cup races at Annapolis this weekend...
Bowles still wears Madison Avenue's grey flannel suits and button-down-collar shirts, has rarely been seen in formal clothes. For recreation he is a real canvas sailor, reluctantly gave up his 50-ft. yawl for a small sailboat when his children grew up. Twice married (he and his first wife were divorced in 1933), he has five children; Son Samuel passed up a Rhodes scholarship to teach school in Nigeria; Daughter Cynthia did a stint as a nurse for the World Health Organization in India...
...Escapade, a sleek, 72½-ft. yawl skippered by Baldwin M. Baldwin of Pasadena, Calif., glided past Skagen Lighthouse to lead 17 weary finishers in the Bermuda-Sweden yacht race. Escapade's time for the 3,500-mile voyage: 19 days...