Word: leewards
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...best 4-of-7 series. In the kind of breezy (10 to 17 knots) but not blowy day that Weatherly likes best, he beat Gretel's Jock Sturrock to the start, soon had a healthy lead and increased it with every mark of the 24-mile, windward-leeward course. The game Aussie skipper hounded Mosbacher like a hound after a fox (cracked one spectator: "Sturrock ought to know how to spell Weatherly by now; he's seen the name on her stern enough"), but at the finish a wide 3 min. 40 sec. and half a mile...
...obscenity; and upwards of a thousand lies." ON THE COMMANDMENTS: The Bible does not allow adultery at all, whether a person can help it or not. No lady goat is safe from criminal assault, even on the Sabbath Day when there is a gentleman goat within three miles to leeward of her and nothing in the way but a fence fourteen feet high whereas neither the gentleman tortoise nor the lady tortoise is ever hungry enough for the solemn joys of fornication to be willing to break the Sabbath to get them. Now, according to man's curious reasoning...
More than 100 spectator boats were on hand two days later as Nefertiti and Weatherly jockeyed for the start of their own elimination race. A balmy 12-knot breeze riffled the Atlantic. Aboard a tender, members of the Race Committee, which had laid out a 24-mile windward-leeward course, checked their chronometers and studied the 12-meters through binoculars. A superb boat in light air, Weatherly was already the commanding favorite. Deftly, Mosbacher beat Ted Hood to the start, had a three-length lead crossing the line. He increased the margin until at the finish Weatherly was 13 boat...
...Lehmann and Mike Horn both in four "B" division races, but were hampered by the erratic winds. In the third race, a gust of wind caught Horn's boat, causing the starboard shroud to let go and forcing the mast off to leeward. Horn had managed a fine start and was leading the fleet, but the point system gave him only a fourth place...
Prototype of the co-ops is the Mill Reef Club on isolated Antigua in the Leeward Islands. Opened in 1948 by U.S. Millionaire Robertson Ward, the club sprawls over 1.300 landscaped acres, has twelve sandy beaches, an 18-hole golf course. Membership (now closed) is rigidly screened to guarantee that openings do not go to just any old millionaire. Sixty-six members (among them: Francis du Pont) own winter homes on club property. With annual expenditures of $500,000. the club is impoverished Antigua's biggest single source of income...