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...mark. But on the fifth leg, a 4.5-mile run with the wind dead astern, the lead and the Cup changed hands. Playing the wind shifts, Conner moved to the left and sailed into a patch of dead air. With sails almost slack, Liberty jibed back, but the Aussie superboat picked up two shifts of friendly wind and rounded the fifth mark with a 21-sec. lead. Conner battled desperately to recover on the last, upwind leg, going through 47 grueling tacks. Said the American skipper: "We kept the pressure on them, but there was no point on that last...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Our Cup Runneth Under | 10/10/1983 | See Source »

...America's Cup was still there on Monday morning, bolted to a table at the New York Yacht Club, which has been its home for 132 years. Its tenure had become frighteningly fragile, however. For the past fortnight a superboat and a bunch of hungry sailors from Down Under have shown that the U.S. can no longer successfully defend the knobbly silver ewer merely by putting a boat in the water. At week's end the best-of-seven series was tied 3-3 between the red-hulled American defender Liberty and Australia II. In the process...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Best Cup Challenge Ever | 10/3/1983 | See Source »

Another season of "superboat" is not only unlikely, it may be physically impossible. In any case, Gladstone has built a reputation like Barnaby's squash record and no one will bet against Harvard's light crew until they lose...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Solid Year for Harvard Sports | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...lights suffered a minor setback yesterday when their Stempfly shell-the infamous "Superboat" unofficially and the Thorne Thompson shell officially-was destroyed in an accident on the Mass Pike en route to Lake Onondage...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Light Crew to Bid Against Heavies | 6/16/1971 | See Source »

Both Parker's heavyweights and Gladstone's undefeated lightweights left Saturday for the traditional training center outside New London. Parker's crews are preparing for the annual Harvard-Yale race while Gladstone's varsity lights "superboat" is getting ready for the Royal Henley Regatta in England...

Author: By M. DEACON Dake, | Title: Crew Begins Yale Training | 6/7/1971 | See Source »

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