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Boston Reporter Johanna McGeary, who filed on the America's Cup races for our SPORT story written by Associate Editor Frederic Golden, had only one previous run-in with sailing. While in the Peace Corps in Panama, she sailed with San Blas Indians in a wooden dugout canoe equipped with a flour-sack sail. Arriving in Newport not knowing a boom from a bilge pump, she quickly picked up enough expertise to follow the final trials. Says McGeary: "I decided to pass up the chance to sail in the America's Cup press regatta scheduled for the first...
...Robert E. (Ted) Turner III, alias "the Mouth " Terrible Ted" and "Captain Outrageous," is not worrying. Nor are the club's blue-blazered elders. For if winds and weather-and the portents-are right, Terrible Ted this week will begin a successful defense of the America's Cup...
Potbellied and ugly as the auld mug may be, it is the Holy Grail of yachting. Twenty-two attempts have been made to wrest the 100-guinea pitcher from the U.S. at a cost of untold millions of dollars. But the cup has remained of the firmly in the possession of the New York Yacht Club ever since it was won from Britain's Royal Yacht Squadron in 1851 under the eyes of an astonished Queen Victoria. Now, in an attempt to break the longest winning streak in modern sports history, a new challenger from Down Under named Australia...
...since their last challenge three years ago with Southern Cross, Australian Real Estate Developer Alan Bond and his team have apparently not yet caught up with the Americans in the complex art of designing, outfitting and sailing the 12-meter thoroughbreds that now vie for the America's Cup. Former U.S. Cupper Bob Bavier, who skippered Constellation to victory in 1964, was so confident that he was predicting a victory for the Americans in four straight...
Still, even optimists like Bavier, a member of the U.S. selection committee that picked Turner's dark horse Courageous over Ted Hood's Independence and Lowell North's Enterprise, conceded that the pirate from Peachtree Street might find himself in the first close America's Cup race in years. Since 1958, when the smaller twelves* replaced the giant J-boats of the '30s, no foreign challenger has won more than one race. But Australia is a virtual twin of Courageous-co-designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer...