Word: tempests
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard junior Andy Berg left Cambridge last week for Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, to rejoin the battle. The ad board gave him permission to take his only final exam in absentia, so Berg won't be returning to Harvard until next September, hopefully with an Olympic medal in the Tempest class gained by crewing for Andy Schoettle...
Minnetonka is only the point of departure, however. The real battle takes place June 12 on Lake Ontario at the U.S. Sailing Center, when some 36 Tempests race for the right to be the one boat to represent the United States in the Tempest class, one of six separate classes at the 1976 Olympics at Kingston, Ontario. Berg and Schoettle, Derek Bok's brother-in-law, want to be in that boat...
...Minnesota, where Schoettle lives and is tenured at the University of Minnesota Law School, the pair will begin an intense, month-long campaign that will culminate at the trials against the best Tempest sailors in the country...
...with Hans Fogh, one of the top sail designers in the world; then to San Diego for more sail-testing with two-time Yatchsman of the Year Dennis Conner; to Annapolis, Maryland, for the Eastern Eliminations; and finally up to Noroton, Connecticut, to tune up with the top American Tempest sailors Jack and Jim Linville or with Canadians Allan and Lorne Leibel...
...Melbourne and came within 15 seconds of a bronze medal, and in 1960 served as an alternate for the 5.5 an Finn class. His brother crewed for Dr. Briton Chance in a 5.5 in the 1952 Olympics and came home with a gold medal, and finished second in a Tempest to Glen Foster in the 1972 U.S. trials and went to Keil as an alternate. He is no stranger to Olympic sailing...