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After 40 years with the magazine, however, Ted Weeks is not quite ready to yield his place at the top. As executive editor-a new Atlantic title-Manning will "reinforce" rather than replace the magazine's editorial helmsman. "It will be a sharing for the immediate years," said Weeks, at least "as far as one can see." After that, "what comes is in the lap of the gods...
...successful test, however, does not make a fleet of Hydroskimmers, and numerous problems remain to be solved. For one, the craft moves so fast as it approaches a beach that the helmsman has almost no time to avoid bad landing spots. Little is known about how the Hydroskimmer handles in a rough sea, and a heavy surf might damage the craft's engines...
Defeat by a total of 48 min. 11 sec. was half again as bad as Sceptre's loss in 1958. Britons tended to find a scapegoat in Helmsman Scott, but that was unfair: Sovereign was so far outclassed that it needed an engine. "Damn," said one U.S. yachtsman, "why did the British have to come up with a boat like this?" But Constellation had barely crossed the finish line when Australia's Sir Frank Packer, whose Gretel made a fair show of it in 1962, handed an envelope to Commodore Chauncey Stillman of the New York Yacht Club...
Still wearing his racing dungarees, Peter Scott, helmsman of Britain's Sovereign, sat in Newport's Ann Street Armory answering reporters' questions. Why was Sovereign's mainsail flapping like a sheet on a clothesline? "I'm afraid," smiled Scott, "that's its normal behavior." Well, what was the most encouraging thing about Sovereign's initial performance? Scott sighed. "The most encouraging thing was that Constellation didn't beat us by more...
Seamanship was never an issue; the battle had been won and lost long months before on the designers' drawing boards. Sovereign's Scott actually put his boat across the starting line five lengths ahead. But Rival Helmsman Bob Bavier simply sailed Constellation through Sovereign's lee, within 15 minutes had a ten-length lead as Designer Olin Stephens' powerful hull knifed smoothly through the buffeting swells, while Sovereign pounded like a flat-bottomed scow. When Constellation swept across the finish line, Sovereign was 21 miles and more than 20 minutes behind. Aboard the British tender, Sovereign...