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...Brown--Whitaker(3), Schettini(4), Clarke(2), Purdy (1) Pennacchia (1), Zuckerman (1), Koch (2), Miller (2), Lake (1); Harvard--Shumway (1), Colligan (3), Winters (5), Hall (2), Cleary (2), Duffy (1). A: Brown--Miller (3), Koch (1), Whitaker (1); Harvard--Colligan (3), Winters (1), Hennessey (1). S: BU--None; Harvard--None
...helm, the margin of victory may depend more on technology than seamanship. If the Australians won in 1983 -- the first and only time a challenger has wrested away the Cup -- it was mostly because of their newfangled keels flanked by little wings to diminish underwater drag. If Koch, a multimillionaire with a Ph.D. in chemical engineering from M.I.T., trounced four-time winner Conner and the Italian finalist, Gardini, in the last Cup, it was because he built four boats only to settle on the one with the sleekest hull, stiffest mast and lightest sails made from a revolutionary carbon fiber/polymer...
Luckily for the women, Koch, reincarnated as the Daddy Warbucks of diversity, wants to provide them with the swiftest boat money can buy. The iconoclastic Kansan, heir to an oil fortune, spent $68 million to win the 1992 cup -- and he is passing on many of his assets, including his two best yachts as training vessels, a huge inventory of masts, sails, rigging and tools, and reams of computer, design and meteorological data. Koch also contributed $5 million in seed money -- a quarter of the women's budget -- to hire some 90 top-level coaches, engineers, fund raisers and public...
...While Koch, 54, says his motive is "breaking barriers" and showing "respect for women's competitive abilities," the venture neatly jibes with his need for a personal-image campaign. A bitter 10-year legal battle with two of his brothers over his share of Koch Industries, a $23 billion energy conglomerate, is likely to come before a jury this year in Kansas. Koch had no interest in another time-consuming try for the Cup himself, having & already proved to himself and the world that an inexperienced yachtsman could beat the pros. But after running TV spots about...
...been training in their San Diego boot camp since June -- six months longer than the men. Coach Worthington is hoping that the 10-hour days, which begin with one-armed pushups and a 105-min. weight-lifting and aerobic regime and continue with intensive tacking and jibing duels on Koch's two 1992 boats, will narrow the gap in strength and skill. "Men don't listen to coaches because their egos get in the way," he says. "But these women are so eager to learn. I get choked up thinking about how far they've come and how determined they...