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...greater deficit to overcome. They opened the regatta on a particularly ominous note, breaking down in the first race and receiving last place points plus one for a disputed OCS (On Course Side) infraction in the second“The first race we were actually winning, and our jib halyard just snapped, and our jib fell down, so we had to drop out of the race, and we got a breakdown for that race,” Porter said. “And then the next race we went out and we had a bad start. It couldn?...
...first race, Harvard’s ‘A’ boat, featuring senior skipper Liam Mahoney and clasmate Zoe Epstein, encountered trouble in the first race when the jib halyard wire snapped, preventing completion of the race...
...from as far away as San Diego. Thanks to onboard ESPN cameras and the natural drama of the Indian Ocean, the sport is suddenly televisable, and armchair America is always ready to celebrate any arcane venture representing Stars & Stripes (even if a few people still wonder who this fellow Halyard is in the front of the ship...
Buoyed by a phone call from Prime Minister David Lange, two miles of thermofaxed messages from 300,000 fans at home and a dockside war dance by Maori tribesmen, New Zealand got lucky in the third race. Stars & Stripes got off to a lead of 21 seconds, but a halyard shackle popped loose as the boat rounded the second mark, sending its spinnaker flapping into the water. Although his crew cleared the wet sail and hoisted a new sheet in 70 seconds, Conner fell behind and was forced into an exhausting two-hour tacking match in which he came about...
...winds were again around 20 knots for the second race. Just before the start, as Australia II jibed to block Liberty, a 24.6-knot gust smacked the challenger, snapping a pin that holds the mainsail to the halyard and dropping the sail 18 in. Despite this handicap, Bertrand beat the U.S. yacht on the first upwind leg by 50 sec., a remarkable margin that displayed his boat's inherent speed. Unable to match his opponent in tacking duels, Bertrand decided to go off in search of a breeze. Left alone, it was Conner who found the wind...