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...Constellation handed Eagle the worst beating in the history of 12-meter cup competition, winning by a full mile and 11 min. 42 sec. in light winds. A good bit of the margin, moreover, was due to a costly goof by Eagle's reshuffled deck crew; when the jib halyard parted, a new jib was clipped on the wrong way, and it took four minutes to get things straight. By then Constellation was long gone...
...masterfully through a series of furious tacking duels, and led Bavier's Constellation around all five marks of the 24.3-mile Olympic course. Turning the final buoy for the 4½-mile upwind beat to the finish, Cox had a 22-sec. lead. Then Bavier set a new jib on Constellation and launched an exhausting short-tacking drive; 17 times in 15 minutes he put about, gaining a precious second or two on each tack. At last, on the 17th try, Bavier cleared Constellation from Eagle's cover, drove through to leeward and carried into clear...
...twelve-knot wind, Sovereign breezed home ahead by a quarter of a mile, showing superior speed to windward, where most yacht races are won. But next day, with the wind up to 20 knots, Kurrewa seemed to have it in the bag until a clew pulled out of the jib, and her crew took a horrendous six minutes clearing the mess. Sovereign won her third straight race when Kurrewa lost 65 seconds by being recalled for a premature start. Then it was Sovereign's turn to bumble. Holding a neat five-length lead with only three miles...
...lessen drag, Eagle's new tab-shaped rudder is much smaller than usual and is tucked farther forward than in most twelves. And for a jib, she will carry a huge new cross-cut genoa that is supposed to hold its shape better than old jibs. Eagle's 36-man syndicate is headed by Pierre du Pont and New York Yacht Club Commodore H. Irving Pratt and includes the recently divorced Mrs. Briggs Cunningham who donated the same silver dollar to place under Eagle's mast that rode under Columbia's when Cunningham captained...
...class of 905 ("He has to work for everything he gets," says one instructor). His course schedule for this term: differential equations, electrical science, thermodynamics, U.S. Government, piloting and navigation, and terminal ballistics. But in military aptitude, matters such as leadership, decorum, and the cut of his jib, the quarterback comes out, and he ranks twelfth in the class. Deeply religious, he has been known to bawl out nappers in the Navy chapel's "Sleepy Hollows," once remarked when congratulated about a football honor: "That won't get me to heaven any sooner, will...