Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wellspring. You have to read Conrad to really understand." For those who race, the motivation has a keener edge. "The sport is marvelously complex and terribly competitive," says Bill Parks. "It's a great challenge because there are so many variables: the wind, the weather, water conditions, other boats. You have to tune your boat, get the optimum performance out of it. Even then, it's a roll of the dice." And while the dice are in the air, anyone-for one brief Mittyesque moment-can be Bus Mosbacher, sailing out of Newport for the America...
...other sporting prize," wrote the late Everett B. Morris, in his definitive history Sailing for America's Cup, "has so much gold, technical virtuosity, brainpower and brawn been expended." The contest, not the old Victorian silver ewer, is the thing. In the demands it makes on boat and man, it is the ultimate, the very pinnacle in yachting. What started 116 years ago as a gentlemen's lark, has become a proving ground for technocrats, a vast public spectacle, an affair of national pride, purpose and prestige that so far has cost the competitors, winners and losers combined...
...England in 1851 to do battle with the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight. The original price of the America was to be $30,000, but her builder had to knock her down to $20,000 because she did not prove the fastest boat in the U.S.* Against...
...White Plains, N.Y. George Gershwin was a frequent visitor, wrote most of Porgy and Bess in a guest cottage tucked away on a corner of the grounds. The Mosbachers wintered comfortably in Palm Beach; summers were given oyer to sailing on Long Island Sound, first in the family shell boat, and then, when Bus was nine, in his own boat: a Star. That August, with coaching from his father's professional helmsman, he entered his first race-and won. "There was," grins Bus, "only one other boat in the race...
...Emil Sr. felt Bus still had lots to learn. "The thing that made me mad was his extreme conserva tism-especially with money. I remember once he was racing in the Midget Star class during Manhasset Race Week. I went down to the dock to check out the boat and noticed that his sheets were frayed. He had never even mentioned it to me; hell, I would have been glad to replace them. I got so mad I slashed the sails. That was the last of Manhasset Week...