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...perfect. "We've got our sails in just gorgeous shape," says Bavier. Some have gone back to the sailmaker as many as ten times; they will all be stored away until the big day. "I think we have the best 12 meter that ever floated," adds the proud helmsman. "Well, don't be the first to lose to the British," laughed Eagle Skipper Cox, offering his congratulations. "My God," said Ridder, "what an appalling thought...
...only boat that seems to stand a chance of plucking Eagle's tail feathers is Constellation, the other new twelve-meter. Under the command of Eric Ridder, Constellation lost her first three races against Eagle. But last week Relief Helmsman Bob Bavier, 46, a veteran blue-water sailor, took over, and Constellation led Eagle around the first two marks when the race was called on account of fog. On the strength of that performance, the Eagle eye is sure to be on Constellation in next month's final trials. But most of the experts are still giving...
Prince won four out of the six "A" division races and finished only one point behind Mike Medeiros, U.R.I.'s "B" division helmsman, in the high point skipper competition...
...Ouija board, a marking pen moved by steel fingers glided across a nautical chart of Narragansett Bay. As he followed the pen's thin red line, a Navy lieutenant, cut off from any view of the water, telephoned commands to the bridge. At each command, the helmsman altered course, and the 65-ft. test ship Alan threaded neatly among islands and inlets. Each change in direction and speed was instantly recorded by the moving...
Guerrilla fighting is something that Founder Samuel Colt probably would have appreciated. Fascinated by gunpowder, he literally blew up his boarding school as a youth and was packed off to sea by his father. Watching the spinning spokes of the helmsman's wheel, he got the idea for the first revolver, financed production of prototypes by touring the West and selling doses of laughing gas to entertainment-starved settlers. The Mexican War made him big, and he expanded by selling to all comers, including Southern secessionists right up until the shooting at Fort Sumter. After his death...