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...hand to watch it all were Sir Frank Packer's Australian spies, hovering around the fleet each day in their chartered motorboat. This month Gretel arrives to start her own trial series against Vim, her chartered workhorse, and the Aussies could be sure that Hood, Mosbacher & Co. would be around to observe...
...right it again." At 17, Mosbacher won the junior championship of Long Island Sound, went on to sweep the International Class championships and just about everything else in sight. In 1958, the first time he ever handled a big, 12-meter America's Cup yacht, Bus took venerable Vim-oldest (by 19 years) boat in the U.S. trials -all the way to the finals before he was nosed out by Corny Shields and Briggs Cunningham in Columbia. Last summer, he signed on as skipper of Chandler Hovey's Easterner, a boat that had not won a single race...
...padding, Australia's sleek, 12-meter challenger for the America's Cup was ready last week for her voyage to the U.S.-as deck cargo aboard the freighter City of Sydney. For two months, Gretel (pronounced Great-ul) had been testing herself against her American trial horse, Vim, and stories about her speed were flying like loose sheets in a gale. Though the Aussies carefully tut-tutted the report, one story had it that Gretel had beaten Vim by 16 minutes over a 16-mile course-a fantastic margin. "We don't know what to believe," says...
...meter yacht ever built Down Under, Payne shrugged off recurring hepatitis, worked 60 hours a week for two years under such rigid security that outsiders still do not know the boat's full specifications. But her 30-ton weight matches that of such U.S. 12-meters as Vim and Columbia; so do her 11-ft. 10-in. beam and her 70 ft. of overall length. The yacht's decks are of Canadian cedar, overlaid with waterproof blue fiber glass. Her hull is of Honduras mahogany, covered with six coats of white paint, decorated with a thin gold stripe...
Slightly fuller-bodied amidships than Vim, the new challenger has a "knuckle" or sharp upward turn on her bow, designed to reduce weight by eliminating overhang. Her floorboards are hollowed out, her fittings are cast of light-weight aluminum or alloys, and some metal parts have been drilled full of holes. Her cockpit floor is purposely curved to provide the helmsman with level footing when the boat heels over in the wind. But her most radical feature is a simplified mainsail control-a single wire, attached to a three-speed gearbox that Payne admits could cause a "chaotic situation...