Word: metering
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Over these past two episodes in the 135-year saga of the Cup, Americans had to learn from Australians the infinite possibilities not only of 12-meter boats but of ingenuity itself. Somewhere along the U.S. line, as Enterprise begat Courageous begat Freedom begat Liberty, revolutionary breakthroughs had been luffing. Then, in 1983, influenced by Dutch technology, a child of the Outback named Ben Lexcen devised a winged keel for Australia II that altered everything. Ultimately developing wings of his own, Conner agrees, "It basically was an art before. We're just starting to scratch it into a science...
...rubber speedboat pulled up alongside the Kook captain. " 'You've got a bomb on board,' they said. 'What do you want to do?' Our immediate response was, 'What's the bad news?' Then we thought, 'Here's our chance to find out if there's life after 12-meter racing.' " The bomb was a hoax, but questions of the future hang...
...three-meter event, Greene again snapped her own Harvard record with her winning score of 324 points--the third time she has broken the record this year...
...boats, from helicopters and even on bicycles. Dunn kept TIME readers posted on the trials and immersed himself in the slowly building drama. This week he contributed to both the profile of Dennis Conner and the accompanying piece, written by Associate Editor J.D. Reed, on the intricacies of 12-meter racing. "In almost 20 years with TIME, I have never covered a comparable event," he observes. "It seems to have gone on for so long that it is hard to believe there is life without a Cup story...
supple as an underinflated football, he calls 12-meter racing his hobby. But nearly everyone on the dock seems to believe he has singlehandedly killed it as a pleasure sport. "The weekend sailor has been shoved out," says Ted Turner, Captain Outrageous of 1977. Tom Blackaller, one of the advocates of leisure caught in Conner's relentless wake, mourns, "I'd like to get him the hell out of sailing. I think he hurts it." Conner sighs and explains, "What they're saying is, 'If I were willing to give as much as Dennis does, I could be as good...