Word: yachts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Kiwis of cheating in 1987, when they were on the verge of winning the Cup's Challenger series. The charge was officially discounted, but the flustered New Zealanders, despite a 37-1 record in the trials, came unglued. Conner went on to thrash them and ultimately win the Cup, yacht racing's Holy Grail, back from Australia. The Aussies, perhaps, had the best take on their rival. dennis, we love you, you bastard read one dockside banner. But the Kiwis smoldered...
Conner is the defender thanks as much to his off-water politicking as to his seamanship. His clout with yacht-club cronies led to a new interpretation of the rules, allowing him to replace a broken keel with a better model. Hours before the last semifinals race, in which he would have been eliminated in a 5-min. rout by the mostly women's team aboard Mighty Mary, Conner negotiated a deal to turn the two-boat finals into a three-boat series. In his last finals race, Conner must have cut a deal with an even higher authority...
...state police helicopter which crashed into the Harvard Yacht Club in February, killing four on board, had contaminants in its fuel system that may have caused the motor to fail, a federal official told reporters at a press conference yesterday...
...team will compete at Long Beach, Calif. from May 30 to June 1. Harvard qualified for the event for the first time in many years by placing second out of nine teams in the New England Team Championships this past weekend, held at the Yale College Yacht Club in Branford, Conn...
...final tournaments of their seasons, both the Harvard men's and women's golf teams took on Ivy League rivals Brown and Dartmouth on Saturday at the Duxbury Yacht Club...