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...Marblehead, Mass...
...Nefertiti, one of the most exciting new boats in American yachting, did extraordinarily well in early time trials. The boat was built at shipyards in nearby Marblehead...
...down. In one race they fumbled a spinnaker overboard in their haste to get it flying, still breezed to victory. Only against Weatherly (seven wins, four losses) did Nefertiti run into heavy going. Twice, by crushing margins of more than four minutes. Bus Mosbacher took the measure of the Marblehead newcomer...
...never before great yacht, Mosbacher drove her to four brilliant victories in a row against the roughest competition U.S. yachting could offer. Eventually, he lost to Columbia, the 1958 America's Cup champion, and then, by a close 43 sec., to Nefertiti, the highly touted newcomer designed by Marblehead Sailmaker Ted Hood. But before that he had humbled Columbia once, Easterner twice, and soundly trounced Nefertiti...
Keel v. Hull. Last week, at Marblehead, Mass., a fourth U.S. candidate slid down the ways on the midnight tide. In what was probably the biggest crowd ever to attend a shore-bound yachting function, 1,200 sailors packed into M.I.T.'s Kresge Auditorium to hear about Nefertiti, a radical 12-meter yacht designed by self-taught Naval Architect Frederick ("Ted") Hood, a world-renowned Marblehead sailmaker. Built in secrecy at a cost of $300,000, she is what her builders call a "beamy cutter," shaped like a wine glass and 1½ ft. wider than normal...