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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...
...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...
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...
...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...
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...