Word: boated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...narrow "tab rudder" mounted on the unusually short keel. Controlled with its own wheel in the helmsman's cockpit, the tab will perform something like the trim tabs on aircraft ailerons, which balance planes for level, effortless flight. When beating to windward, the tab should offset the boat's natural tendency to round up into the wind. On reaches and spinnaker runs, the two rudders can be linked together for maximum steering control...
...Stephens' daring with the new $350,000 boat, he admits that "I have my fingers crossed. We'll just have to see how it works." If it doesn't, the seven-member Intrepid syndicate has Constellation in reserve. Mosbacher has already been putting Constellation to use on weekend sail-handling drills, looking over a 27-man crew for the ten who will eventually make up his first team. Whatever boat Mosbacher sails, he expects a rum go from at least two other U.S. hopefuls: a rebuilt Columbia, which is being run by a West Coast syndicate...
Then there are the Australians. Mosbacher rated Gretel an "awfully good boat" when Jock Sturrock sailed her in 1962. Sturrock now has the new Dame Pattie, and that boat, as Mosbacher says, "has been beating Gretel to death" in trial races Down Under. Though Gretel's owner, Sir Frank Packer, has altered his boat for the third time, and won himself another series of trials, Sturrock & Co. will almost certainly be at Newport in September...
...everywhere in his debt with another natural resource, Panama's Pinas Bay, where, starting in 1963, he spent some $2,000,000 to turn an isolated patch of Pacific coastline into the handsome Club de Pesca de Panama, which, with its own amphibious plane service and a 15-boat fleet, opened the world's greatest marlin grounds to thousands of delighted anglers; of a heart attack...
...junior varsity race looks like a three-way fight. Navy is also undefeated at this level, and turns in times which are very close to the Midshipmen varsity. Harvard's heavyweight varsity coach Harry Parker thinks that the crew which wins this one "will be the best JV boat in the East...