This procedure has been used in a number of boat trials.
But the Oracle squad's plans for a full season of two-boat trials have been derailed.
On "Glad Man Singing," I threw in the world's biggest clunker: "Sad man knocking on a chapel door/and a burned out boat called 'Trial By Fire'".
There is no smile on the faces of the 21 Egyptians from the infamous 'Queen's Boat' discotheque trial, whose sentences have been increased on appeal to three years' imprisonment and forced labour.
Several of the first boats underwent trials in German home waters, but the rest were assembled and tested at either Antwerp or Pola.
But last Wednesday, in a cold, gray North Atlantic seaway, Goss's worst nightmares were realized when a 45-foot section of the spindly port bow cracked off like an icicle dangling from a sill, on the third day of the boat's maiden trials.
ON the last Friday in October, Ed Ewing, who has spent four decades fishing out of Morro Bay in California, took his newly leased boat, the South Bay, for a trial run.
Even though American Eagle twice participated in the America's Cup trials, the boat never advanced to the cup finals.
Bertelli was evidently dissatisfied with boat speed in prep trials, and Luna Rossa's first two race performances indicate that structural adjustments and gear changes may be required.
The sailors aboard PlayStation have experienced the full spectrum of wind speeds and sentiments since the boat began Atlantic Ocean sea trials last December.
The next time Courtenay Dey figured in a revelation, the older woman was leaning out of her own boat at the Olympic trials and saying, in a way that Clark found cutting and intimidating and appropriate, "Oh, you got a little close to the mark".
