Word: whidden
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...still a game of toy boats played by millionaires. But no single millionaire, no superstar skipper, can dominate alone. "You have to delegate," says Whidden. "This is a team sport and not a single man's quest for victory." He believes Conner's greatest growth since 1983 has been in his ability to get good people and allow himself to rely on them. Will his team win? Or will Parry and Murray's Kookaburra mates refuse to yield the Cup? As the racing began, most experts favored Conner, but Australian Skipper John Bertrand, who won the Cup in 1983, loyally...
Heading out for the decisive race against New Zealand in the challenger final, he planted a thought with Tactician Tom Whidden: "Do you think the feet of our jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined...