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There will also be storage hours tomorrow, O'Conner said...
...accident that Conner, now 52, has survived six America's Cups in two decades, spurred the transformation of the event into a high-tech-and highly commercialized-business, and dominated his sport as much as any athlete in history. "Dennis is totally focused on winning," says John Marshall, who was once the head of Conner's design team but is now the chief of a rival syndicate. "If people are in the way, he'll walk over them or kick them out of the way. The humane side is not there, but he's a good leader and an extremely...
...Conner also posseses a knack for compromise. When he was losing in the semifinals, he offered to merge his team with the women's team, taking their faster boat and half their crew, according to Vincent Moeyersoms, Mighty Mary's manager. The courtship was spurned. But when Conner finally won the defender's title, he wasted no time in dumping Stars & Stripes and making a deal to sail Marshall's Young America-the first time a finalist has switched boats before the last series. Conner might have coveted Mighty Mary, but the women weren't about to let him have...
...switch to Young America gave Conner's team less than a week to learn to sail the new boat, but that was less risky than sailing the sluggish Stars & Stripes against the swift Black Magic I. "Young America's deck layout is different, but we're getting used to it," said Trenkle. "It's like getting a new car and the knobs are not where you think they...
Because of the demands of design, organization and marketing, Conner leaves most of the steering of his boat these days to equally aggressive helmsman Paul Cayard. But Conner retains the title of skipper, and indeed, his strategic genius and Houdini-like survival skills are integral to the team's success. As his opponents can attest, he will do anything to prevent a recurrence of his worst nightmare: losing the Cup to Australia in 1983, which was the first time the Auld Mug had ever passed out of American hands. Should that happen this time, few doubt that Dirty Dennis will...