Word: crewed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just as rugged as Sceptre is her crew of ten regulars and seven alternates, hand-picked from among Britain's best sailors after spring tryouts. Skipper Stan Bishop, 56, a professional yacht captain and a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during World War II, won his job by disconcertingly outsailing Sceptre in trials off Cowes, at the wheel of a pacer yacht, Evaine. Glamour boy is husky Helmsman Mann, 34, a blond bachelor lieutenant commander, whose nose is gloriously bent from a schooldays boxing match. A friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mann was once sailing master...
Says Helmsman Mann: "I think the boats are about even." If Sceptre becomes the first British boat to beat the U.S. since America first won the cup in 1851, he is prepared. As extra cargo, Sceptre's crew brought along a special box just big enough to hold the America...
...invited to race is an honor, and to win an even greater one. After many years of waiting, 21 to be exact, a Harvard crew returned to England. And this time, the lightweight crew won the Thames Challenge Cup for the first time in the history of the College...
After defeating the prep school crew, the eight proved their superiority over Washington Lee High School. This Fourth of July race was never close. Two lengths separated winner and loser...
...second race of the day was scheduled at 5:30 p.m., some five hours after the contest with RAF Benson. During the afternoon, Coach Brown and his crew waited anxiously at a small house in the town two blocks from the railway station. Although comparative timings showed Harvard to be superior, Thames had an average weight of almost 13 stone. With the eyes and ears of the nation watching or listening to the BBC, anything might have happened...