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...will among the crowd of 10,000 on the Newport waterfront. As Australia II was guided back into her slip, Skipper Bertrand, Backer Bond and Designer Ben Lexcen led a round of hip-hip-hoorays for Conner and his men. "There will never be another like it," mused Halsey Herreshoff, Liberty's navigator. "It was the essence of sport in that one race...
With Australia II on its way to an impressive 37-4 won-lost record, Halsey Herreshoff, navigator of the leading American boat, Liberty, drafted a complaint, claiming that the keel was illegal and that the Australians should be penalized, disqualified or forced to change its configuration. Otherwise, wrote Herreshoff in his memo to New York Yacht Club officials, Australia II "will likely win the America's Cup." No foreign boat has ever done that in the 132-year history of the races, and some of the challengers quickly charged that the N.Y.Y.C. was doing its best to make sure...
Supported by Herreshoff's argument that the Aussie keel fins give the boat added draft, or depth, upwind, thus making it a 12.5-meter or 12.8-meter yacht in those conditions, the N.Y.Y.C. asked the Measurement (TM) Committee to reconsider its earlier O.K. Last week the I.Y.R.U. officials responded with a unanimous no. But that did not end the matter...
Died. L. (for Lewis) Francis Herreshoff, 82, master yacht designer; in Boston. Most widely known for his do-it-yourself designs, Herreshoff built handsome wooden yachts, including Whirlwind, a 1930 contender to defend the America's Cup; and Ticonderoga, a trim, graceful 72-ft. ocean racer (built in 1936), which won the 1966 Transpac race from San Francisco to Honolulu...
...Paul Austin, 49, president of Coca-Cola Co., recipient of the 1965 medal of Philadelphia's Poor Richard Club for his "exemplary leadership"; Yachtsman Olin Stephens, 56, designer of Constellation, which defended the America's Cup for the U.S. last summer, winner of the Nathaniel G. Herreshoff Trophy of the North American Yacht Racing Union; General Lyman Lemnitzer, 65, Supreme Allied Commander in Europe, awarded the Bernard Baruch Medal by the U.S. Veterans of Foreign Wars; Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 66, given a plaque by the Camp Fire Club of America, at the Tavern...