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...weak finish to a season of mixed team-racing results. After opening the season with a 5-9 finish for sixth place in the Bob Bavier Team Race Invitational, Harvard sacrificed its finish in the Ferraro Trophy regatta to secure a spot in next year’s sloops championships. But the real test came at the Fowle Trophy, the New England team race championships, in which the Crimson finished third behind the Big Green and Yale...
Harvard sailed under conditions that ranged from 10-knot winds on Saturday to strong breezes and heavy rain on Sunday as it wrapped up the Bob Bavier Team Race with a 5-9 record...
...years ago with Southern Cross, Australian Real Estate Developer Alan Bond and his team have apparently not yet caught up with the Americans in the complex art of designing, outfitting and sailing the 12-meter thoroughbreds that now vie for the America's Cup. Former U.S. Cupper Bob Bavier, who skippered Constellation to victory in 1964, was so confident that he was predicting a victory for the Americans in four straight...
Still, even optimists like Bavier, a member of the U.S. selection committee that picked Turner's dark horse Courageous over Ted Hood's Independence and Lowell North's Enterprise, conceded that the pirate from Peachtree Street might find himself in the first close America's Cup race in years. Since 1958, when the smaller twelves* replaced the giant J-boats of the '30s, no foreign challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer...
When it was all over, Mosbacher announced his retirement from America's Cup racing. "I've had it," he declared. "Never again." He did manage to stay out of the 1964 defense when Bob Bavier in Constellation scuttled Britain's Sovereign in four straight races; he was still determined to stay ashore when the Australians challenged again this year. Changing his mind was not easy...