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...coke. "He was way out of line," says Nelson. Trenkle, who was standing nearby, maintains that the comment was "locker-room humor. They were joking around." Many of the women were not amused. "Ninety percent of us are either married or have steady boyfriends, but who cares?" says mainsheet grinder Stephanie Armitage-Johnson...
...Says ( Murray: "In the early races I was coming in every day with double vision. It's like having a saltwater hose going flat out into your face." Murray and crew now wear sunglasses, which must constantly be cleared of caked salt with squeeze bottles of fresh water. Kookaburra Mainsheet Trimmer Peter Gilmour, known as "Crash" for his aggressive tactics as Murray's starting helmsman, sometimes wears an industrial dust mask to protect his face from sunburns and windburns...
...decisive race against New Zealand in the challenger final, he planted a thought with Tactician Tom Whidden: "Do you think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined by Whidden and Navigator...
...were feather light once more, and ultralight Australia II, weighing 5,000 lbs. less than Liberty, took to them like a seagull riding the thermals. She beat the American boat by 3 min. 14 sec., the largest margin rung up by a foreign challenger since 1871. John Marshall, the mainsheet trimmer on Liberty, said after the race, "There is a speed difference in these two yachts like I have never seen. Australia II is something new, very thoughtful and very exciting." Asked how he spent the day off after his first loss, Conner replied, "I worried." After that race Conner...
...Jackson boat's boom swung over my head," she continued. "As they tried to move away, the mainsheet caught around my neck and pulled me right out of the boat. My crew thought I was being strangled, so she tried to heel the boat over and we capsized...