Word: afterguard
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...foredeck for Harvard were Dan Burnes, Jim Notman, and John Bullard; in the afterguard, Kinny Howland, John Cunningham, Peter Robbins, and Franz Schneider...
This final two races were plagued by light variable winds which frequently baffled the Crimson afterguard. On the last leg of the last race the team was solidly ensconced in second position, but slipped to sixth at the finish...
...setting up a sailmaking business at the age of 22. He developed and wove his own brand of tough fabric from Dacron, which proved so successful that last year he supplied some sails for all four America's Cup candidates, and was a member of Vim's afterguard in the Cup trials...
...four potential U.S. cup defenders. There were better helmsmen available, critics argued, than Sceptre's 34-yearold skipper, Lieut. Commander Graham Mann, onetime sailing master for the royal family. As a matter of fact, some added, there were altogether too many navymen in the challenger's afterguard. They acted as if they knew it all, and were slow to get down to serious training...
...Endeavour II in four straight races. Corny Shields was active, that America's Cup summer, doing some crewing on Gerard B. Lambert's Yankee, another of the big J Class boats, which raced against Ranger for the honor of defending the cup. In the Ranger's afterguard, i.e., board of strategy, was Long Island Sailor Arthur Knapp Jr., one of Corny's ablest continuing rivals for local and national sailing honors...