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...lead and lost to Columbia by 4 min. 16 sec. The likeliest candidate was Columbia, the rebuilt (at a cost of $125,000) 1958 Cup winner, which was refurbished all over again after losing twice to Intrepid in last month's observation trials, and her mainsheet winch was now located below decks...
...clarinet with him, was on his way to a teen-age hop to play at intermission. "I asked him if he needed a piano player, and he said 'Great.'" Over some Benny Goodman tunes, Lamont wangled a trip on the Columbia. "Glit had me playing the mainsheet like a yoyo, and what I thought would be a free ride ended up a workout...
Scorning all landlubbers who look upon racing as sitting in a puddle in the bottom of a boat, the yachtsmen stoutly maintain that holding a mainsheet is just as much work as pulling...
...King George's yacht Britannia, a beloved treasure of "The Sailor King" who expressly commanded that she should be sunk and not used for any charitable purpose after his death. The late King's sailing master, Sir Philip Hunloke, tried to buy the Britannia's mainsheet, 70 fathoms long, but souvenir hunters outbid him. Prices also proved too high for Captain Turner, long-time skipper and yachting favorite of King George. He watched while $20 was paid for a boathook, $160 for the Britannia's red & green sidelights, and $1,500 by an enthusiastic...
...terriers: "Nip developed sea-legs very soon, but Tuck took some time to acclimate himself. By the time the storm was over, however, both had become regular seadogs. Tuck still objected to the slant of the deck, but recovered sufficiently to have a tug of war with the mainsheet. Nip seemed worried because he couldn't find any place to bury bones and none of the works on navigation which we had gave dogs afloat any advice on the subject." She told about one of the encounters of the Elena and the Atlantic in midocean: ". . . the Atlantic came...