Word: cupped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cycle repeated itself again last month when Penn whipped Harvard on the Charles in the Adams Cup regatta, only to lose at Worcester the following weekend. And since the Crimson has decided neither to race at the I. R. A. nor follow Penn to Henley in July, the issue will still be open...
When Intrepid scored her startling victory over Valiant in last month's America's Cup trials, the least surprised man in Newport was Britton Chance Jr., the young naval architect who had taken the old 1967 Cup winner and redesigned her into the 1970 Cup defender. To Chance's mind, the outcome was decided last winter in a test tank in Hoboken, N.J. There, like some bathtub admiral, he spent four months testing 75 different model hulls until "I felt we had a winning design for Intrepid.'" Chance was sure of it when...
...confidence is what it takes to defeat the Australian challenger Gretel II when the America's Cup begins this week, Brit Chance obviously has enough to spare. Indeed, some old salts find him downright arrogant. Defeating Valiant was one thing, they say, but criticizing the boat's designer. Olin Stephens, 62, the man who practically invented the 12-meter sloop, is akin to lèse-majesté. But Chance isn't listening; he is too busy explaining why Stephens, after designing three of the last four Cup winners, was all but swamped by the new Intrepid...
Though some traditionalists would like to dismiss Chance as a brash upstart, at 30 he is actually a year older than Stephens was when he helped design the 1937 Cup winner. Ranger. And, like the old master, he is very much to the manner born. A product of Philadelphia's Main Line, Chance has been a water baby "since my mother dropped me overboard when I was two." His father won a yachting gold medal in the 1952 Olympics. Sisters Jan and Elli are top small-boat skippers, while Uncle Henry is a noted ocean racer. Brit Jr. began...
...meters, it was only logical that the Intrepid syndicate decided to take a chance on Chance. He has been involved with the America's Cup since 1962, when he helped design one boat and crewed on another. Three years ago, he designed an advanced 12-meter, Chanceggar, to serve as a model for the unsuccessful bid of the French to win the Cup. At the time, there was talk that the New York Yacht Club, holders of the Cup, should prevent Chance from aiding a challenger. His reaction is typical: "My own attitude is that if the French...