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Stephens was 22 when he took a vacation from his drawing board and, with his father and brother Rod as crew members, astounded the blue-water racers by skippering his 52-ft. yawl Dorade to victory in a transatlantic race to England. The experience helped him go on to design deep-keeled, fast cruising yawls with flashy racing lines, such as Baruna and Bolero, and the shallow-keeled, sturdy Finisterre, that came to dominate blue-water racing against schooners and ketches...
...other corner: Multimillionaire Contender William A. Blakley. 59 ("I want to be yawl's Senatuh''). anointed heir to the conservative Democrat legions of exiled ex-Governor Allan Shivers. Blakley was appointed by Shivers to warm the senatorial seat between Daniel's departure and the special election that put Yarborough in. After that 103-day stint he did not stand for election-probably on Shivers' orders. Probably at Shivers' request -and surrounded by ex-Shivers speechmakers and advisers-he is running...
...fetch the line, came about and crossed it again. Not until they had suffered through an hours-long session did frantic officials make sense out of what they finally decided they had seen. First to finish the 635-mile thrash to the "onion patch" was the 64-ft. yawl Good News. Overall winner on corrected time, for the second time in a row, was Carleton Mitchell's beamy keel-and-centerboard yawl Finisterre...
White Water. The start off Newport came in a spanking northwester, and a too-daring majority of crews broke out their spinnakers. The billowing kites caught more wind than they could handle. The U.S. Naval Academy's 44-ft. yawl Fearless was knocked down and her decks rolled under white water until she finally worked free. The 45-ft. sloop Sirius lost her spinnaker over the side and caught the waterlogged tangle with her keel. Two days later the Finisterre had spinnaker trouble too. Despite an elaborate net of lines designed to keep it from fouling, the soaring, cranky...
...private secretary after his separation from his wife six months ago. Then he shocked the nation's nannies and provoked a reproving tut from one British newspaper by shipping eight-year-old Prince Charles as crew for a three-hour race through choppy seas in his 2g-ft. yawl, Bluebottle. Result: happy and salt-soaked as a clam, Charles had a fine time, pleased his papa by taking the tiller himself after they plowed past the finish line in fourth place...