Word: newports
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cacophony of blaring horns and Klaxons. Ashore, bands of Australians waltzing Matilda and waving Aussie flags passed legions of local patriots God-blessing America and brandishing the Stars and Stripes. Despite a few ugly incidents, there was remarkably little ill will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided back into her slip, Skipper Bertrand, Backer Bond and Designer Ben Lexcen led a round of hip-hip-hoorays for Conner and his men. "There will never be another like it," mused Halsey Herreshoff, Liberty's navigator. "It was the essence of sport...
...highlight of the rites was the unveiling at last of the radical keel that the Australians had kept carefully shrouded from view since their arrival in Newport last spring. Lexcen's design did not, as many pundits had said, sport a bulbous nose or a double trim tab. Its magic lay in the two one-ton deltoid wings drooping from the bottom of what, in effect, is a normal keel turned upside down; its trim tab is very narrow, however, with a strip of plastic fairing to make it even more effective. As Australia II had amply demonstrated...
That night, the Auld Mug was unbolted from its pedestal at the New York Yacht Club's Manhattan mansion and taken to Newport by armored truck. Next day, at Marble House, former summer home ("cottage," in local parlance) of Harold Vanderbilt, himself an America's Cup legend, the unlovely pitcher was presented to its new owners and started the 11,620-mile trip to Perth. But first Liberty Syndicate Head Edward du Moulin gave Skipper Bertrand Liberty's dark blue burgee. Then N.Y.Y.C. Commodore Robert Stone presented Bond with "the bolt that's kept...
...furor in Newport over the dilapidation of Mrs. James Jay Coogan's empty mansion on aristocratic Catherine Street turned the spotlight on one of the world's wealthiest recluses: for 25 years Mrs. Coogan, now well into her 80s, has seldom left her Manhattan hotel suite in the daytime, but each night at 9 o'clock she goes down in the freight elevator heavily veiled, drives to her cubbyhole office in a loft building, puts in five hours administering her real-estate fortune (which includes Coogan's Bluff, the Polo Grounds where the Giants play...
...Royal Perth Yacht Club in the state capital of Western Australia. Racing conditions in the Indian Ocean will undoubtedly be far different from those on Rhode Island Sound. Nor is it likely that the hearty and hail fellow atmosphere of Perth will lure the well-heeled international crowds that Newport has attracted. This year's epic contest has already irrevocably changed America's Cup racing. Clearly, future challengers will concentrate on technology as they have not done in the past. While the 12-meter class has always encouraged innovation, the Australian inventions will likely...