Word: skippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Danmark Trophy in Division A Reeve, with Phil DeNormandie as crew collected four firsts to take the low-point skipper honors by ten points. In Division B Worth, with Rudd Istvan as crew, took seventh...
Indeed, in the first four races Gretel II had shown herself easily as swift a sloop-and perhaps even faster in light airs. What Aussie Skipper Jim Hardy could not prove was his crew's superiority over Intrepid's Bill Picker and his polished young sailors. Time after time, Gretel II grasped for the advantage, only to be frustrated by the seamen aboard Intrepid. The fifth race was more of the same. Gretel II jumped off to an early lead, footing smartly in the soft, fluky winds. In a series of aggressive tacks, Picker overhauled the Aussies...
...preliminaries off Newport gave no indication that this year's races would break any precedents. The Aussies, scuttled in their 1962 and 1967 bids for the Cup, arrived late in Newport and looked unimpressive in their victory over the hapless France. Just a week before meeting Intrepid, Skipper Jim Hardy and Designer Alan Payne decided to move Gretel II's mast 5¾ inches aft. So major a modification, made so late in the contest, suggested that the Australians were less than prepared to take on Intrepid's Skipper Bill Ficker and his finely drilled crew...
...first race in a cold rain and stiff, 20-knot winds. Trailing by 200 yds. at the first mark on the triangular 24.3-mile course, Gretel II attempted to set her spinnaker, but it knotted into the dread hourglass shape that is the stuff of a racing skipper's nightmares, and stayed that way for five agonizing minutes. Barely had the crewmen cleared the headsail when Gretel II nosed into a heavy wave that bucked Crewman Paul Salmon off the slippery deck. While the Aussies circled to rescue their comrade, Intrepid glided...
Storer collected three firsts and four seconds on her way to high-skipper honors, while Fulweiler took one first and five seconds...