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Pounding around Gage Roads in 25-ton yachts is more than just physically punishing. It is perilous. The blinding glare of the sun and the continual shower of salt spray are so forceful that both skippers have had serious trouble with their eyes. Conner was forced to consult a Perth specialist. Says ( Murray: "In the early races I was coming in every day with double vision. It's like having a saltwater hose going flat out into your face." Murray and crew now wear sunglasses, which must constantly be cleared of caked salt with squeeze bottles of fresh water. Kookaburra...
Self-made Perth Millionaire Kevin Parry, whose Parry Corp. has assets of $180 million from gold mining, TV productions and real estate, has spent some $10 million on his three Kookaburras. But he did not decline a $66,000 check handed over last week by 1983 Winner Alan Bond, his rival Perth wheeler-dealer whose Australia IV was beaten in the defender trials. Before that peace offering, though, the two had exchanged a squall of nasty words following Australia's defeat...
...rules were not rigged, they were at least geared for the defenders, whose original 1851 victory on the schooner America was dubious too.* When an appealing gang of Australians flew the Cup away on a winged keel three years ago and relocated it in a western backwater near Perth, only a few millionaires with wet bottoms were very disappointed. Only Conner cried...
...know how much vacation time he had accrued at the end. Then he died of cancer." The son goes sailing all right -- "only about 365 days a year." A San Diego drapery business Conner acquired through one of his several mentors and patrons must run itself. Stories abound in Perth of the fallen bicyclists and smudged newsboys the captain has randomly scooped up and taken for boat rides, but even Conner's wife Judy wonders whether he is just commemorating himself. "He never relaxes, and we never go on vacations," she says in an interesting reference. "Hell to Dennis would...
...knot himself. Puffs of wind can be calibrated on his shoulder blades. Tiny fractions of speed are visible to him on the sails. Like a fastidious haberdasher, he is constantly pinching and reshaping the fabric. In his salt-stung eyes, which now and then send him tearing off to Perth doctors, the ocean appears multicolored, rich in textures, contours and clues. Some believe he can see past the horizon, even into his opponent's cockpit. Why he tacks on the next wave instead of this one is a mystery...