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...scrubbings from American Eagle and Constellation, the new girls in town. Officials of the New York Yacht Club Selection Committee decided to waste no more time. Hopping into a launch after the third defeat, they motored out to extend their thanks and regrets to Columbia's Skipper Walter Podolak and Nefertiti 's Ted Hood. That cleared the decks for the long-awaited head-to-head duel between Eagle and Constellation...
...Blame the Boat. The other boats were still far from disgraced. Columbia, gem of the 1958 America's Cup but badly outclassed in the 1962 trials, regained enough of her glitter under New Skipper Walter Podolak to beat Nefertiti and Constellation-the Californian's first victories in America's Cup competition. Constellation herself, with a record of two victories and five defeats, was still in the running. The only real disappointment was Ted Hood's Nefertiti. Glamour boat of the 1962 trials, the beamy Marblehead yacht got all the way to the finals before losing...
...good deal better in light air." Columbia, the 1958 victor, will be on hand with the first West Coast crew ever to take a crack at Cup competition. Cornelius Shields has sold her to California Yachtsman Thomas Patrick Dougan, and her new skipper will be Walter Podolak, 50, whose 10-meter yacht Coquille dominates racing in its class along the West Coast, has won 14 of its last 15 races. And finally Easterner, Boston Banker Chandler Hovey's "family boat," will be back for one last try at yachting's Holy Grail. "We have changed the rigging," says...
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