Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wasn't good," Harvard's John Pernick said. "We didn't sail as well as we though we would. It wasn't a terrible performance, but it could have been better...
Ancient mariners told of the Flying Dutchman, a phantom ship eternally doomed to sail the waters around the Cape of Good Hope, never making port. In the Gulf of Mexico last week the real-life vessel Mobro 4,000 seemed as damned as the Dutchman as it searched in vain for a friendly harbor. Southern ports had good reason for turning away the bereft barge: it was loaded with 3,168 tons of rancid, fly-infested trash from New York...
...Contractors, Inc., to haul away a massive batch of refuse from Islip, N.Y., and other townships. After being freighted with the garbage -- which was mashed into some 2,200 untidy bundles by a giant compactor -- Harrelson's leased barge was hitched to the tugboat Break of Dawn and set sail on March...
After the regulation races were finished, the Crimson found itself in a three-way tie with the Elis and the Jumbos for the final two qualifying spots. In the sail-off, the Crimson crushed both teams to secure third place and a berth in the New Englands...
...have a good chance of qualifying for Nationals," Burnes said. "We have three excellent skippers. Saturday was an example of how well we can sail...