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...meter sloop "Weatherly" yesterday clinched the America's Cup by beating the Australian challenger "Gretel" by 600 yards in a windwardleeward 24-mile yacht race off Newport, Rhode Island...
...time for this weekend's starting gun approached, the word in Newport was "Weatherly in four" in the best-of-seven competition for the America's Cup. Weatherly was ready. Well tuned by the trial races that made her the U.S. defender, she lay in the ways at Newport Shipyard undergoing final polishing, then was set in the water for minor ballast shifts. At week's end her crew arrived to pace out the dwindling days before the meeting with the Australian challenger Gretel. By contrast, the Australian 12-meter lay inert under the hurried tread...
After a two-week rest, Skipper Emil ("Bus") Mosbacher and Weatherly's ten-man crew got together again in Newport at week's end. Mosbacher watched Gretel under sail after the mast shift and politely pronounced her "very good, very fast" in tacking and jibbing drills. Then he set about the business of putting Weatherly back in the water for the final days of practice on the sail trimming and flying starts that made the yacht unbeatable in the trials...
...though they were just plain U.S. society, they gyrated a passable twist at the Newport, R.I., estate of former...
...record of Henry Mercer's 12-meter Weatherly spoke for itself. Three times off Newport last week, Weatherly trounced Ross Anderson's Nefertiti to make a runaway of their climactic duel for the right to defend the America's Cup next month against Australia's Gretel. In each of the three races, the boat skippered by Bus Mosbacher won by a bigger margin...