Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...even when it is easy. Chopping effortlessly through a moderate southerly breeze out in Rhode Island Sound, Courageous won her fourth straight race against Australia's Southern Cross by an almost embarrassingly wide margin of 7 min. 19 sec. That ended the best-of-seven America's Cup series and ensured that the old mug would remain bolted to its table in the New York Yacht Club, which has held it for 123 years. All that Courageous Skipper Ted Hood and his eleven-man crew got for their troubles was a few postrace swallows of champagne...
NEWPORT, R.I.--It was the second major disappointment for this seaside resort in just a year. Once again Newport was witness to a finale that did not come close to living up to its advance billing. The challenge for the prestigious America's Cup by the highly-touted syndicate of controversial Australian Alan Bond proved to be about as well-produced as the Newport-filmed "Great Gatsby" which flopped a month before...
...Bond's 12-meter yacht Southern Cross rated as the best shot in the history of the event to wrest the awkward Silver trophy from its secure position in the headquarters of the New York Yacht Club in Manhattan. Twenty-one other challengers had tried before to take the cup home, but none had succeeded. THIS, the pundits predicted, was to be the year that the United States could lose, and the Cross would be the boat...
...Cross was sailing by the Americas Cup bouy long before Courageous was towed out by its tender two hours before the 12:10 start of the race. The Cross was followed about by her tender and watched with curiosity by the then-small spectator fleet that had begun to gather near the starting line. She even received a rousing round of applause from the 80-or-so paying spectators as she tacked next to the Coast Guard Cutter Vigilant, which patrolled the boundary of the race course...
Newport Shipyard was quiet around 4 p.m. the afternoon of Race Four. Two miles offshore, however, Courageous had just successfully defended the America's Cup by the whopping margin of 7:19 in the final battle of the series. The radios on shore were the only clue to the jubilation on the water, as Hoyt bubbled over about the victorious American crew popping champagne on the deck as they waited for the Southern Cross to finish...