They sailed together for 12 days.
They sailed together until the doctors took his boat away.
After that, they sailed together and had the occasional traditional date as well.
The underdog boats are crewed by fellow countrymen, some of whom have sailed together for years.
Coutts and Butterworth have sailed together in 10 America's Cup races, while Barker has sailed in one.
In 1989, Swan and I sailed together on a work boat that ran crews and materials to offshore drill rigs.
The two sailed together in numerous New York Yacht Club "maxi-yacht" races, which originate in Newport, R. I
For years, he and his wife, Heidi, sailed together in the winter, he recalled, but then they capsized several years ago.
He had been close to Chris Burden and Nancy Rubins, both of whom taught at U.C.L.A. Ray and Burden sailed together in a boat they owned jointly, but after 1998 their friendship lapsed.
"Extremely close friends," Mr. Buckley said in a telephone interview on Thursday, observing that he and Mr. Galbraith had sailed together across the Atlantic three times and across the Pacific once.
A close friend of the Adams, Jeff Allen, said Blue Water's so-called Oz-Med section, from Mackay, Australia, to Crete, is considered the most dangerous; the Blue Water statement said the Adams' yacht, the Quest, left the rally on Feb. 15 to take an alternate route to Salalah, Oman, leaving the group, which sailed together for security.
