Word: lexcen
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Dates: during 1983-1983
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...local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided back into her slip, Skipper Bertrand, Backer Bond and Designer Ben Lexcen led a round of hip-hip-hoorays for Conner and his men. "There will never be another like it," mused Halsey Herreshoff, Liberty's navigator. "It was the essence of sport in that one race...
...highlight of the rites was the unveiling at last of the radical keel that the Australians had kept carefully shrouded from view since their arrival in Newport last spring. Lexcen's design did not, as many pundits had said, sport a bulbous nose or a double trim tab. Its magic lay in the two one-ton deltoid wings drooping from the bottom of what, in effect, is a normal keel turned upside down; its trim tab is very narrow, however, with a strip of plastic fairing to make it even more effective. As Australia II had amply demonstrated...
...There's no reason for America to think we're in any position but No. 1." Some American critics claimed that Conner had paid insufficient heed to his navigator and tactician and had thereby missed some crucial wind shifts. A kindlier assessment came from Australia's Lexcen: "Dennis saved the Cup the last time [in 1980], and he deserves the credit for almost saving the Cup this time...
...owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept the Cup in place for 132 years." And Lexcen, who once told a reporter that he would like to steamroller the Cup and turn it into the "America's Plate," received from Stone a mangled hubcap. "I don't think there's any other country we'd rather see have the Cup," said Stone, adding...
...itself for a building boom in anticipation of the challenge. At least seven new hotels are expected. There are also plans for a "yachting city," to accommodate as many as 20 challenging teams, sail lofts, dockyards and marinas, and a communications and press center. Australia III, also designed by Lexcen, is already on the drawing board and, claims Builder Steve Ward, is "better than Australia II. Two weeks after we had Australia II in the water, we knew we could build a better boat...