Word: sailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Conner is not a rich man, though. Furthermore, he says he does not like to sail. As a matter of fact, he cannot swim. ("I spend all of my time trying to stay out of the water.") No more enigmatic character presides over any sport. At the top of his game, Conner can eat with Nicklaus, drink with Namath, offend with McEnroe, spend with Marcos and lose with Napoleon. With a straight face, as brown...
...title of Conner's 1978 tome, which he modestly refers to as the Bible. In 1983 his explanation for the grandest seafaring indignity since Bligh went home in a dinghy was that the best crew lost to the best boat. "Design has taken the place of what sailing used to be," he says. And now that Conner understands this, he doesn't mind. "I don't like to sail," he says. "I like to compete. I guess I don't dislike it, but my sailing is just the bottom line, like adding up the score in bridge. My real interest...
...their "commitment to the commitment." During the races few words are ever necessary, and those are gently spoken. But in practice runs the banter is uncommonly happy. "What do you think, campers?" says Conner, who never seems to command, only question. "Will anybody be heartbroken if we change this sail? Shall we put up Dolly?" Perhaps a revolutionary and certainly a ! provocative new spinnaker -- featuring rows of billowing bulges -- is on loan from the N.Y.Y.C. The club had a falling-out with Conner three years ago; its entry America II fell out of the tournament seven weeks ago. Miss Parton...
...jibs are strong enough in these seas?" Well, they had been all summer. Naturally, the jib exploded. At the sound of the "boom," as Mainsheet Trimmer Jon Wright recounted for TIME Correspondent John Dunn, "everyone took off." High-wire Bowman Scott Vogel scrambled to pull the bad sail down, Mastman John Barnitt hurried to help. Pitman Jay Brown kept to his halyards. Grinders, tailors and trimmers shot off in appropriate directions, joined by Whidden and Navigator Peter Isler. Conner was left alone in the back of the boat at the wheel only he is ever permitted to spin...
...Reagan administration announced the aircraft carrier USS Kennedy would begin a port call in Israel on Friday and that four of the Kennedy's escort warships had been ordered to sail for home...