Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their domain since the days of Leif Ericson, and Norway's debonair Crown Prince Harold, 27, has salty blue in his veins. A deep-water sailor from the age of eight and Norway's kingpin skipper for the past decade, Harald was named by the Royal Yacht Club to represent his country in the 5.5-meter yacht class at the 1964 Olympics. Sailing the Fram III, designed by U.S. Master Draftsman Bill Luders, Harald is rated a good bet for a medal of some sort, but it had better be gold if he is to maintain status...
...south coast of Turkey is so undiscovered as yet that few Turks have heard of it, let alone been there. Most of it can be reached only by yacht, many of which are chartered in Athens, and there are no hotels-only peasant villages, sandy beaches, rocky promontories, azure water, clear skies and a background of snow-capped mountains. This coast was once a favorite Greco-Roman resort area (one town with a modern population of 500 has an ancient amphitheater with a seating capacity of 30,000), and on one beach the sea laps at the steps...
...first week of America's Cup trials on Long Island Sound, the Aurora Syndicate's brand-new American Eagle sailed off across the starting line seven times-and seven times came home victorious. It was all just practice as far as the New York Yacht Club was concerned. The boat that will defend the 113-year-old America's Cup against Britain's Sovereign or Kurrewa V will not be picked until after the final trials off Newport in August. But in the meantime, American Eagle was doing a pretty good job of "selecting" herself...
Strong & Straight. Blue-water yachtsmen had expected Eagle to be good-but not that good that soon. Eagle was only 18 days old when she won her first race. Her architect, A. E. ("Bill") Luders, 55, had never designed a 12-meter racing yacht before. Her skipper, William Cox, 51, was supposed to be a small-boat sailor at heart, had not handled a twelve in 27 years. And her young crew was so nervous that when they tried to set a spinnaker, they dropped the pole bang onto Eagle's deck...
...Constellation-the Californian's first victories in America's Cup competition. Constellation herself, with a record of two victories and five defeats, was still in the running. The only real disappointment was Ted Hood's Nefertiti. Glamour boat of the 1962 trials, the beamy Marblehead yacht got all the way to the finals before losing out to Weatherly, and many experts felt that Nefertiti was the better boat, credited Weatherly's victory mostly to the remarkable helmsmanship of Skipper Bus Mosbacher...