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Updated: March 14, 2014 at 03:07 AM

SCOTT KEELER I Times

Members of the Yale University Sailing Team sail off Tampa Bay toward the docks at the University of South Florida St. Petersburg on Thursday. The team is visiting St. Petersburg for several days to practice in Tampa Bay. Brisk winds filled their sails Thursday. The team is based at the Yale Corinthian Yacht Club in Branford, Conn., and was founded in 1881, making it the oldest collegiate sailing club in the world.

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