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...cordial and cooperative throughout the intensive reporting and research for the cover story, a certain gentlemanly reserve surfaced when we requested details tor a cross-section drawing of the boat that would make features of its design graphically clear to readers from Newport to Sydney to the Isle of Wight. When Researcher Mimi Conway called at Mosbacher's office in New York to discuss the dia gram, he smilingly said, "I think I have exactly what your editors want for this." Thereupon he handed her a folder that turned out to be a promotion piece for the TIME-LIFE...
Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, when he sailed his new, 102-ft. pilot schooner America to England in 1851 to do battle with the Royal Yacht Squadron in a race around the Isle of Wight. The original price of the America was to be $30,000, but her builder had to knock her down to $20,000 because she did not prove the fastest boat in the U.S.* Against...
...When he finally did return to competition in 1949, Bus did it with a broadside: he skippered a 33-ft. International One-Design sloop to victory in the Amorita Cup in Bermuda, then sailed a 6-meter to victory in the British-American Cup at the Isle of Wight. As the song goes, it was a very good year: at a Manhattan cocktail party that September, he met Patricia Ryan, a pretty, dark-haired public relations assistant. "Neither of us ever had another date with anyone else-as far as I know," says Bus. Pat was no sailor...
...naval commander in World War II, Prince Philip, 46, is predictably a demon in a dinghy. A brisk breeze rippled the sea as the duke sailed a Flying Fifteen sloop to the starting line off the Isle of Wight in his first skipperly confrontation with that not notably nautical upstart, Prince Charles, 18. But with the aid of a ringer crewman, Flying Fifteen Designer Uffa Fox, Charles finished a respectable 13th in the field of 22, chantied snatches of The Pirates of Penzance as he sailed past his dead-last daddy. "He's going to be a great helmsman...
...means of transportation. The British Hovercraft Corp. has already built and sold seven-ton, 18-passenger hovercraft and nine-ton, 38-passenger models like those in operation at Expo 67. Both have a 4-ft. clearance. Two larger versions will soon come off the company's Isle of Wight production line: a 40-ton model that will carry eight autos and 160 passengers, and a 165-ton craft that will carry 32 autos and 250 passengers and have skirts long enough for a 12-ft. clearance on land. Two of the 165-tonners will be in regular service across...