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Sunday afternoon Harvard faces Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia--the crew which kept the Crimson out of the Olympics in 1964--and crews from New Zealand and Australia which finished first and second at the North Americans...
...more than 10,600 sold to date), and that's just the beginning. "A boat," as one Miami sailor puts it, "is a hole in the water, into which you pour your money." Docking fees run anywhere from $2 per day at the Ninnescah Yacht Club near Wichita, Kans., to $10 per day at the crowded slips in Newport. Yearly maintenance on a 23-ft. Star-class racer costs between $500 and $1,000-and the annual tab for a 40-ft. ocean-racing yawl can top five figures...
Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, when he sailed his new, 102-ft. pilot schooner America to 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...
...Regrets. Mosbacher graduated cum laude from Choate, went on to Dartmouth, where he majored in economics, settled for C's, became known as a deft hand with a bridge deck and dice, and led the varsity sailing club to two straight national intercollegiate championships. Commissioned an ensign in the Navy in 1943, he applied for the Small Craft Training Center in Miami. The Navy, in its infinite wisdom, sent him to radar school instead, but Bus finally wrangled a transfer to the carrier Liscome Bay-a transfer that fell through when doctors found he had a hernia...
...going down in yachting annals as the man who finally lost the Cup for the U.S.? But the pressures were strong. For one thing, in 1961 he had become the second member of Jewish ancestry (although he is an Episcopal convert) ever elected to the New York Yacht Club...