Word: cups
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wood was out and aluminum was in. That was the new gospel circulating in the rarefied world of 12-meter yachting after the last America's Cup races in 1970. No matter that aluminum-hull boats had never competed in yachting's most prestigious international competition. Designers were convinced that the lightweight metal vessels would be speedier and cheaper to build. Olin Stephens, the world's foremost yacht designer, who conceived three of the last five Cup winners, created Courageous...
...Australia, Millionaire Land Developer Alan Bond, pledging to win the Cup that American boats had owned for 123 years, ordered up a $2 million metal boat he named Southern Cross...
Major Surgery. By last week the aluminum revolution was looking a good deal less robust. With the second round| of trial races under way in the waters off Newport, R.I.-the Cup had been postponed a year to give designers time to work with their new technology -wood looked as good as ever...
Intrepid, the wooden-hulled winner of the last two Cups, had been quietly cast off by her East Coast backers after the victory in 1970. She was bought by a Seattle group and placed under the direction of San Diego Yacht Builder Gerry Driscoll, who is competing in his first Cup race. With the low-key Driscoll at the helm, Intrepid and her 13-man crew have beaten the new boats six times while losing only three races...
...York Yacht Club, holder of the Cup, is not scheduled to pick an American defender until final trials next month; it is still too soon for the aluminum backers to abandon ship. Optimism, though, is difficult to find in the Mariner camp. Brit Chance's boat was in drydock last week undergoing major surgery. The reason: her radical design -a hull that had a blunt, "fastback" stern instead of the traditional tapered underbody-simply had not worked...