Word: saile
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luff, the forward edge of the sail...
...contrast, the full-scale replica of America that sailed into New York harbor last week en route to the Cup trials at Newport cost the F. & M. Schaefer Brewing Co. $500,000 to construct. Architects for the new America: Sparkman & Stephens, the same firm that designed Intrepid. * The Twelves get their name from a complicated rating formula that takes into consideration length, girth, sail area and freeboard, and after much mathematical hocus-pocus equals 39.37 ft., or twelve meters. * And who now has his own class named after him, the 30-ft. Shields boat, first brought...
...moved up to the Juniors in 1937 and took that national title two years later. "It was obvious from the start," says his father, now 70, "that Bus had what it takes to be a great sailor." When he was only 16, Cornelius ("Corny") Shields asked him to sail on his Interna tional Dinghy team-a high honor, indeed, coming from the famous "Grey Fox" of U.S. yachting (TIME cover, July 27, 1953). But Emil Sr. felt Bus still had lots to learn. "The thing that made me mad was his extreme conserva tism-especially with money. I remember once...
...have a little competition from Susan. She was an International-class sloop that Bus sailed in 1950-thereby launching one of the most phenomenal winning streaks in U.S. yachting history. The International skippers whom Bus took on that summer were the elite of U.S. racing: Arthur Knapp, regarded as the best sailor to windward in the business; Bill Luders, a topnotch helmsman and naval architect; and Shields-the very man who had introduced the International to the U.S. 14 years before.-Bus beat them all-that year, the next, the next, the next, the next, the next, the next...
...skeg, or "kicker," an extension of the keel that is supposed to cut down wave turbulence and make her faster yet. But all that is underwater. What shows above the wa ter line is pretty radical too: a broken-nosed bow, a titanium-tipped mast, a $22,000 sail inventory that includes a 2,200-sq.-ft. nylon spinnaker that weighs barely 15.8 Ibs.-plus the most of Bus Mosbacher, but only bits of anybody else...