Word: skipperly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sailor & Sportsman. It was a long sail for the newly built 12 meter. In the opening sets of trials, Eagle and her skipper William Cox seemed able to beat anything without wings. What made Connie the better boat eventually was a difficult-and genuinely sportsmanlike-move on the part of Eric Ridder, 46, her skipper and part owner. Though Ridder is a crackerjack blue-water sailor, he never could get the better of Eagle's Bill Cox. So he turned the start and the all-important windward legs over to his second in command, Bob Bavier, 46. "It takes...
CORNELIUS SHIELDS ON SAILING. Corny's own philosophy for winning races is also a frank memoir of the man, who at 70 is the champion U.S. skipper...
...Peter Scott, skipper of the Sovereign [Aug. 21], is also a "leading ornithologist," a noted and remarkably talented painter, specializing in the most realistic waterfowl portraits. As a sailor, he is following in the footsteps of his heroic father, Robert Falcon Scott, the man who reached the South Pole only to find that Raoul Amundsen had reached there shortly before...
Earlier this summer, yachtsmen had little doubt that Eagle and her brilliant skipper Bill Cox, 52, would fly away with the prize. In two sets of preliminary trials during June and July, Eagle won twelve straight races, including three from Constellation, whose crew could not seem to do anything right...
Newport jangled with rumors of arguments among Eagle's crew. Skipper Cox, swallowing earlier statements about "the best crew any 12-meter ever had," bounced veteran Deck Boss John Nichols and one alternate. Concerned about the boat's sluggishness in light air, Eagle Designer Bill Luders narrowed the forward edge of her keel, replaced the lost weight with inside ballast, and reduced the rudder area...