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...that point, the leader was Bill Wishnick's 32-ft. Maritime, Big Broad Jumper, powered by two monstrous 700-h.p. Holman & Moody engines. Then the rudder fouled. That left the race to Mono. Lou III, another 32-ft. Maritime powered by twin 427-h.p. MerCruisers and piloted by Florida's Odell Lewis, 34, who used to wrestle alligators for sport until it got too tame. Bounding along at an average 50 m.p.h., he finished in 12 hr. 36 min. 20 sec., just as darkness closed in on Grand Bahama. "I ain't afraid of alligators," he said...
Intrepid is most far-out way down under. Instead of a single rudder set on the keel, she has two-a main steering rudder set well aft on a long stabilizing skeg, plus a narrow "tab rudder" mounted on the unusually short keel. Controlled with its own wheel in the helmsman's cockpit, the tab will perform something like the trim tabs on aircraft ailerons, which balance planes for level, effortless flight. When beating to windward, the tab should offset the boat's natural tendency to round up into the wind. On reaches and spinnaker runs...
...higher stroking Tech shell, however, hung on stubbornly just off Harvard's rudder as Dartmouth dropped back. Neither boat was able to move on the other until the sprint when Tech came back two seats, but Harvard held them off and crossed the line...
Given new impetus by a council that in many ways answered the Reformation demands upon it, Roman Catholicism frequently seems like a ship that has lost its rudder in high seas: almost every week a priest defects and marries, a theologian challenges defined dogma, new evidence appears that laymen are putting aside authority-given moral guidance to take a stand, Luther-like, as conscience dictates...
When the first reports and photos came in from Down Under, U.S. naval architects-discounted the idea of anything radical in Dame Pattie-except for a rudder that is wider at the head than at the heel. "Her deck plan is almost an exact reproduction of the Constellation's"-the U.S. boat that won the America's Cup in 1964-said Olin Stephens, who designed Constellation and the newest U.S. twelve-meter, Intrepid. But Stephens had second thoughts. "I wish I could see," he said, "what makes Pattie so fast...