Word: yawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...water tanks sprang a leak and ran dry. Forced to live on a trickle of water distilled in a pressure cooker, the crew reached Capetown so weak that it took twelve men to lower and stow the big, billowy spinnaker. Between Capetown and Sydney the skipper of a French yawl and a British crewman on an Italian vessel were lost overboard in storms, and a Mexican boat suffered a knockdown. A British sailor drowned east of Sydney when he lost his footing and fell into the frigid ocean...
...glamour entries were not the only ones in trouble. Beyond the Cape of Good Hope, the "roaring forties" justified their ill repute. Italy's Tauranga lost a crewman to the angry sea, and Dominique Guillet, captain of the French yawl 33 Export, was tossed overboard and lost when his safety harness snapped during a squall. Then came the terrifying moment when heavy seas rolled the Mexican ketch Sayula II so far her masts were deep under water. "There was no warning," recalls Crewman Keith Lorence. "Suddenly there was a big crash and the lights went out. She righted herself...
Harvard's sailing team put its main emphasis on the Kennedy Cup, the national intercollegiate yawl championship at the Naval Academy, but the Crimson could only manage eighth place out of the 11-team field. Harvard did, however, manage to beat three West Coast entries, who had come East as favorites...
This weekend the Crimson will be spreading themselves thin as they compete in three major events. Their emphasis will be on the Kennedy Cup at the Naval Academy where George Putnam will skipper the Crimson's eight-man yawl team. But the Ivy League championships and the Fries Trophy regatta, a major New England event, are also this weekend...
...start off the weekend, the Crimson traveled to the Coast Guard Academy for the eliminations of a yawl regatta next Fall for the MacMillan Cup. Putnam and Brownlee co-skipperred the eight-man yawl to a second place and a birth in the consolations...