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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...
...course was a windward-leeward twice-around variety, and two spinnaker sets were necessary in each race. At no time did the Crimson reach the upwind mark in better than third place, but Ford took the downwind stretches at speeds up to 13 knots, assuring a high finish in each race...
...knot puff of wind hit the boat as Ford was attempting to jibe around the first leeward marker in the fourth race, and the sail ended up wrapped around the spreaders. As Ford lost precious moments clearing the Crimson sails, the Coast Guard and BU rounded the mark and started upwind with about a 50 yard lead...