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...first controversy involved the radical keel of the leading foreign challenger, Australia II. The brainchild of ebullient Australian Designer Ben Lexcen, the keel has provided Newport with gossip, speculation and creative chicanery all summer. Swathed in blue-green skirts whenever Australia II is out of the water, the supersecret keel has been the target of camera-wielding scuba divers from rival camps. One local cartoon lampooned the mysterious keel by depicting it in the shape of a bottle of Swan Lager, a major corporate backer of the Australia II effort...
...midsummer, however, the basic features of the keel were common knowledge around Newport: the unusual appendage rakes forward under the hull into a bulb, then sweeps aft into two delta-shaped wings designed to give the boat an advantage while heeled over sailing upwind (see diagram). The exact dimensions of the keel were well known to the International Yacht Racing Union's Measurement Committee, which had formally examined Australia II for conformity to the complicated 12-meter standards well before the racing began...
...three Australian entries (Advance and Challenge 12 the others) that began round-robin trials last weekend, Bond's Australia II is favored to be the one to face the defender in the best-of-seven series commencing Sept. 13. Australia II is a vessel of intrigue: her secret keel is shrouded when she is lifted out of the water...
...righting an unbalanced rowboat, the ship's crew was ordered to assemble on the carrier's port side. Their combined weight, coupled with the shifting of water in the vessel's ballast tanks, was meant to tip the ship in hopes of freeing it. But the keel, which normally requires 36 ft. of water for safe clearance, remained stuck. Only with the help of the outgoing tide did the Enterprise finally break loose from its unwanted mooring and finish its long journey home...
...long ago, Secretary of the Navy John Lehman, 40, swooped onto the aircraft carrier Midway in the Sea of Japan. As he settled on the flight deck in his A6, it occurred to him that the keel of that ship was laid a year after he was born. Now he was managing the Midway and her sister ships, helping to devise a new American defense. "I could go out and make money," he mused. But then, with great relish, he added: "It would not be one-tenth as much...