Word: dougan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...America's Cup observation trials off Newport, R.I., Bus once more demonstrated why he is rated the slickest blue-water sailor in the world. At the helm of Intrepid, he ran off a string of five straight victories, including a 3-min. 46-sec. trouncing of Pat Dougan's refurbished Columbia - the boat that was expected to give Intrepid its stiffest battle for the right to defend the cup against Australia's Dame Pattie in September...
...week's end Columbia had lost yet another race, this time to Constellation, and Owner Dougan had replaced Cunningham with 39-year-old Bill Ficker, a former Star Class world champion. Intrepid appeared to have the defender's job virtually locked up-and attention at Newport switched to the Australian challengers. If the America's Cup were awarded for beauty, the sleek green-and-gold Dame Pattie would win easily. If it were awarded for brass, Skipper Jock Sturrock would be well in the lead. He left no doubt that he expects to win come September...
...Intrepid. "It's who is best in August that counts," said Eagle's skipper, George Hinman, "that's when we want to be best." Still to be heard from is another challenger: Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup winner, now owned by Californian Pat Dougan and remodeled at a cost of $125,000 last year. According to Olin Stephens, who drew the plans, she is 75% new: a "skeg," or fin, has been added to her bottom to make her stiffer in the water, her stern has been shortened 2 ft. 5 in., her deck...
...heavy air as she was in '62 and a good deal better in light air." Columbia, the 1958 victor, will be on hand with the first West Coast crew ever to take a crack at Cup competition. Cornelius Shields has sold her to California Yachtsman Thomas Patrick Dougan, and her new skipper will be Walter Podolak, 50, whose 10-meter yacht Coquille dominates racing in its class along the West Coast, has won 14 of its last 15 races. And finally Easterner, Boston Banker Chandler Hovey's "family boat," will be back for one last try at yachting...