Word: skippers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan's venerable New York Yacht Club, where tradition changes as slowly as the membership rolls, they say that if a foreigner ever wins their hallowed trophy, it will be replaced in its case by the losing skipper's head. Robert E. (Ted) Turner III, alias "the Mouth " Terrible Ted" and "Captain Outrageous," is not worrying. Nor are the club's blue-blazered elders. For if winds and weather-and the portents-are right, Terrible Ted this week will begin a successful defense of the America...
...designed by Dutch-born Johan Valentijn who apprenticed under famed US 12-Meter Designer Olin Stephens, creator of Courageous. The low-slung challenger, which trounced rivals from France and Sweden to get a crack at Courageous, may well nearly match her in hull speed, and has a highly competent skipper in the respected Noel Robins...
...Turner, the bold, brash captain of the revamped 12-meter yacht Courageous, had the champagne ready in Newport when George Hinman, head of the six-member selection committee, came to tell him and his crewmen the news: "Gentlemen, you have been selected to defend the America's Cup." Skipper Turner, 38, a Georgian who owns the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks (TIME, Aug. 8), had won the right to try to retain for the U.S. the world's oldest international sporting trophy by defeating the other two U.S. aspirants, Enterprise and Independence...
...brains and heart. And I had a lot of heart. I could hang in there." Hang in he did, and over the years, Turner emerged as one of the most widely experienced and successful sailors in the world, winning in a variety of boats under every condition. As a skipper, he is a fire storm of energy, ranting, cursing, praising, excoriating. On the waters of Rhode Island Sound off Newport, he has driven his crew to a razor-sharp edge. Conservative in his tactics when in the lead, he will stop at nothing when he is behind. The final race...
Enterprise, the latest effort of Olin Stephens, the master 12-meter designer, has been gaining on Courageous (also a Stephens design) as the matches have progressed. Its San Diego-based skipper, Lowell North, 47, suffered from lack of experience in Atlantic waters during the June matchups. An expensive -and unsuccessful-experiment with new sailcloth cost North additional precious tune. Poor crew coordination and tactical blunders-committed as North turned over the helm to scamper about the deck fiddling with fittings and adjusting the rigging and sails-worsened matters...