Word: hovey
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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's Holy Grail. "We have changed the rigging," says Skipper Charles Hovey, 55, the owner's son, "the spreader has been narrowed, and also we'll use new sails...
...already come for two of the four yachts battling for the defender's job. After six races of the final trials last week, cup officials eliminated Chandler Hovey's Easterner (record: no wins, six losses) and Paul Shields's Columbia (3-3), leaving Weatherly (5-1) and Nefertiti (4-2) to race on alone...
...Henry Mercer's four-year-old Weatherly came out for the finals with her pale blue hull newly painted and polished. Ross Anderson's Nefertiti, damaged by vandals fortnight ago, was repaired and ready to go. And for the first time all summer, the mainsail on Chandler Hovey's Easterner seemed just right...
...meter America's Cup yacht, Bus took venerable Vim-oldest (by 19 years) boat in the U.S. trials -all the way to the finals before he was nosed out by Corny Shields and Briggs Cunningham in Columbia. Last summer, he signed on as skipper of Chandler Hovey's Easterner, a boat that had not won a single race in the 1958 trials; with it, he beat Columbia and Weatherly his first time at the helm. But when Owner Hovey would not give him a free hand to select a crew for this summer's trials, Mosbacher quit...
...winter getting a shorter, sharper keel, a new mast, new sails, and new "coffee grinder" winches. Says the senior Shields: "People ask, 'Why change a boat that is obviously very fast?' Well, we figure we need every advantage we can get to lick our competition." Chandler Hovey's Easterner, trounced in 14 straight races in 1958, has undergone major surgery. Her mast has been stepped aft some 18 in.; she has a new keel, new sails, and a new skipper: Olympic Gold Medal Winner George O'Day. Henry Mercer's Weatherly, sailed by canny...