Each skipper is trying to make the other boat concede and grant him the lead and the clear air advantage.

The skippers tried a variety of routing strategies.

Back in the days of ocean racing, skippers had often tried to rob each other of the wind.

Most skippers try to avoid stopping because of the time it takes to sail in so close to land.

The skippers are trying to squeeze the utmost potential out of their boats all the time.

He imagined that every other skipper listening in was trying to do the same.

The Avilda's late skipper had been trying to kill her.

The American skipper tried to smile.

The boat had been put in dry dock for an overhaul while the skipper tried to arrange the fitting of a schnorkel (he was unsuccessful).

As the confused skipper tries to figure out what it was, another noise and the walls start to shake.