Word: helmsmen
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...Crimson's chief hope in this series is Tim Prince, a junior who placed third in New England last year and just missed qualifying for the collegiate finals. Prince has been sailing extremely well recently, and since the two helmsmen who beat him last year have graduated, he must be rated a strong favorite...
Eighty of the budding seafarers have attended the beginners classes held each week. More than 50 have qualified as provisional helmsmen, a distinction which entities them to use the Yacht Club's fleet 15 fiberglass dinghies seven days a week. The boats are moored at the M.I.T. Sailing Pavilion on the Charles...
...plastics engineer from Buffalo, and Cory Cramer, a New Haven prep school history teacher, are not only fine navigators but can also turn a neat trick at the wheel. Dick Bertram, a Miami yacht broker, and Bobby Symonette, operator of a yacht basin in the Bahamas, are famed as helmsmen but are also skilled sail handlers. Mel Gutman, the boat's only hired hand, can tackle any job from cockpit to foredeck...
...real test will come tomorrow, when some of the best college helmsmen in Massachusetts compete for the 38th Greater Boston Dinghy Championship. Since M.I.T.'s top skippers will be in Kings Point for the Nevins Trophy, B.U.'s favored team should present the only very formidable opposition...
...military pilots, not one Catholic filtered through the Space Curtain?' 2) Some communion breakfast orator will harangue the Knights: '. . . Columbus et al. were of our faith. Are the Niñas, Pintas and Santa Marias of the cosmic seas to be piloted solely by heretic helmsmen?' 3) A Catholic educator will demand a look-see at the 566 'Who am I?' questions used in screening the fledgling spacemen. Were those questions slanted to put a Catholic ... in a poor light? 4) Inevitably some aspiring politico will stir our bile to a boil by observing that...