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...between two big, custom-built racing machines, the 74-ft. ketch Pen Duick VI from France and the 72-ft. ketch Great Britain II. Both are captained by veteran sailors. Pen Duick Skipper Eric Tabarly won a singlehanded transatlantic race in 1964; Great Britain II's captain, Chay Blyth, made a solo circumnavigation three years...
...Capetown when his titanium mainmast collapsed. By radio, Tabarly ordered a new spar. Under jury rig, he headed for Rio, 1,200 miles away, to pick it up. The 82-ft. mast, fabricated in Switzerland, had to be cut in two to fit into a French military jet. Meanwhile Blyth, a former paratroop sergeant, was learning that $350,000 worth of sleek boat does not necessarily go fast when manned by a crew of paratroopers with little sailing experience...
Adventure Training. There were few amenities to relieve the boredom of chasing an empty horizon for 6,000 monotonous miles. Captain Blyth, as if emulating Captain Bligh, kept comforts to a minimum, removing heaters and fans, feeding his crew on army rations, and limiting them to one fresh-water bath every ten days. "If the men get too comfy down below," he insists, "they won't want to come up on deck to work." On some other boats, living has been easier, with quarters outfitted with stereos, soft chairs and well-stocked freezers...
...getting black businesses started. His only setback came in 1967 when he lost to Walter B. Wriston in a competition for chairmanship of the U.S.'s second largest bank. Not being No. 1 cramped him, though, and Wilcox quit in 1971 to join the investment firm of Blyth, Eastman, Dillon & Co. There, says a friend, he turned down "about 50,000 job offers." Then Crocker offered him an irresistible challenge. Gauging Wilcox's reputation, one Crocker banker looks ahead and says, "A lot of people here will have to start working hard again...
INDIANAPOLIS, IND., Starlight Musicals. Ann Blyth sings her way through Siam in the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic The King...