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Still wearing his racing dungarees, Peter Scott, helmsman of Britain's Sovereign, sat in Newport's Ann Street Armory answering reporters' questions. Why was Sovereign's mainsail flapping like a sheet on a clothesline? "I'm afraid," smiled Scott, "that's its normal behavior." Well, what was the most encouraging thing about Sovereign's initial performance? Scott sighed. "The most encouraging thing was that Constellation didn't beat us by more...
Last week, sporting a newly tailored mainsail and a genoa borrowed from Kurrewa, Sovereign looked tough indeed. Bavier was worried enough to spend a day practicing starts against Old Master Bus Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to a cup victory in 1962; taking the wheel of American Eagle for the first time, Mosbacher beat Bavier to the line four times in a row. Perched on the deck of a nearby cabin cruiser, Scott watched the scrimmage with interest. Back on the dock somebody asked him: "Don't you ever take a day off?" Answered Scott: "I'll think about...
...beat Weatherly, Gretel will have to be superb. All along, the challenger has looked good on the outside, from the cut of her new mainsail to the long curve of her bow. But her weather helm had caused enough concern to signal last week's mast shift. If the shift works, Skipper Jock Sturrock and Gretel's crew will be sailing a new boat; if it does not, the Australians will remain hapless in unruly seas...
...replotted. Now, Henry Mercer's four-year-old Weatherly came out for the finals with her pale blue hull newly painted and polished. Ross Anderson's Nefertiti, damaged by vandals fortnight ago, was repaired and ready to go. And for the first time all summer, the mainsail on Chandler Hovey's Easterner seemed just right...
...mainsail is controlled by a single cable attached to a three-speed gearbox...