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Only one of the crew that worked on this week's cover story can be classed as a bona-fide expert sailor. He is Charles Lundgren, a noted marine painter who has been sailing for more than 40 years, once was in the crew of a boat that won the Bermuda race, sails his own 37-ft. sloop and is a longstanding member of the New York Yacht Club. He sketched and photographed Sailor Mosbacher in action from the deck of Mary Poppins, Intrepid's tender, and at the dock, and revisited his sub ject and scene until...
...Sailors forget their wives, their mistresses, their children and, of course, their bank accounts for the feel of the wind and the sound of the starting gun. Everybody remembers J. P. Mor gan's haughty retort not to ask the cost of maintaining a yacht. But everybody is doing his best to make a liar out of him. The price of a relatively modest 19-ft. Lightning racer is $3,200 (more than 10,600 sold to date), and that's just the beginning. "A boat," as one Miami sailor puts it, "is a hole in the water...
...races on the Sound. He won the Midget championship in 1935 and 1936, 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...
...Wight. As the song goes, it was a very good year: at a Manhattan cocktail party that September, he met Patricia Ryan, a pretty, dark-haired public relations assistant. "Neither of us ever had another date with anyone else-as far as I know," says Bus. Pat was no sailor, but she set out to learn: 14 months later, she and Bus were married...
...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, and the next...