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...long stabilizing skeg, plus a narrow "tab rudder" mounted on the unusually short keel. Controlled with its own wheel in the helmsman's cockpit, the tab will perform something like the trim tabs on aircraft ailerons, which balance planes for level, effortless flight. When beating to windward, the tab should offset the boat's natural tendency to round up into the wind. On reaches and spinnaker runs, the two rudders can be linked together for maximum steering control...
...spectator boats turned back. An old hand at match racing (he was Gretel's helmsman in 1962), Dame Pattie's Skipper Jock Sturrock caught Gretel going the wrong way at the start and gradually widened the gap to 1 min. 54 sec.-mostly during the beats to windward, in which Gretel hobbyhorsed badly while Dame Pattie slid smoothly through the crashing swells. It was the second race, in smooth seas and light winds, that certified Dame Pattie as a "flyer." Once again, Sturrock beat Gretel's skipper, Archie Robertson, to the start. By the first mark, Dame...
...major breakthrough" in hull design. Built at a cost of $500,000, the Dame has a radical rudder (broad at the top, tapering sharply at the foot) and a 92-ft. aluminum mast that is built in sections for extra flexibility-to keep the mainsail flatter while beating to windward. She also has Jock Sturrock at the helm. In unofficial competition with Gretel, Dame Pattie has been spectacular. Last week Skipper Sturrock spotted Gretel a full minute, was ahead by 6 min. 45 sec. after 15 miles...
About midnight, five hours after his ad-libbed tribute to Valerie, Chuck Percy wearily returned to his $230,000, three-acre estate, Windward, on the Lake Michigan shore in Chicago's elegant suburb of Kenilworth. Valerie was in her bedroom watching television. She had decided earlier that day not to attend a "Dance-for-Percy" party on the North Shore; she dined at home with two young men who were working for the campaign, and retired shortly after 10 p.m. Her twin sister Sharon was in another room. Another of Percy's daughters, Gail, 13, was asleep...
...With a quick start, McNamara put a boat between himself and Cox at the first mark. "We've lost it," thought Cox. Not quite. Slightly misjudging the tide and wind on his starboard side, McNamara headed straight for the second mark-giving Cox, who had shrewdly angled to windward to blanket McNamara's sails, the chance to skim first around the buoy. Frantically trying to make up lost ground, McNamara and his crew then did the incredible once again. The spinnaker was billowing; then as they jibed, flutter, flutter, there it was, snarled around the headstay. This time...