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...mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe and the five stars of the Southern Cross. Her sails, tailored from light blue Dacron, range in weight from ¼ oz. per sq. yd. (for the spinnakers) to 6 oz. per sq. yd. (for the mainsail...
...fittings are cast of light-weight aluminum or alloys, and some metal parts have been drilled full of holes. Her cockpit floor is purposely curved to provide the helmsman with level footing when the boat heels over in the wind. But her most radical feature is a simplified mainsail control-a single wire, attached to a three-speed gearbox that Payne admits could cause a "chaotic situation" if it jams...
When the fleet set sail out of Stamford, Conn, for the 25th annual round-trip race to Martha's Vineyard, skippers blinked at the sight of Bill Luders' 39-ft. Storm: she was carrying no boom and no mainsail. But when the fleet made it back to Stamford, Luders had sailed off with the race. Storm's win dramatized the fact that in distance racing these days, victory often goes not to the fastest but to the designer who gets the mostest out of The Rule-the complex, 27-page system of handicapping spelled out in detail...
...family-founded Luders Marine Construction Co., wiry, blond Bill Luders, 49, is one of the U.S.'s best sailors (at 16, he was 6-meter champion), knows the formula like his arithmetic tables. This year he realized that the formula assumes the boat will carry a mainsail, allows the use of jibs of any size without penalty. By weighing anchor without a mainsail for the Vineyard race, Luders got a bonus of an extra four hours' handicap. Instead of using Storm's normal headsails, he hoisted a gigantic genoa jib that was fully...
...peace-time Navy. Discharged as a Commander in 1945, he remains a keen salt water sailor, piloting his fifty-foot German-built yawl "Blue Water" through the coves of Long Island Sound "as often as possible." As a weekend skipper, White has won several races, although he lost his mainsail the only time he entered the famed Bermuda regatta...