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When the McMillan Cup races were moved from the spring to the fall this year, the Kennedy Regatta was scheduled for April. In 1933 the late President skippered the Crimson to a victory in the McMillan Cup. One of the skippers he beat, Robert Bavier of Williams, last summer won the America's Cup races as skipper of the Constellation...
...first three races, Britain's Peter Scott had at least outmaneuvered Constellation's Bob Bavier at the start, had lost because Sovereign simply could not stay in the same water with the U.S. boat on the windward legs. But last week Scott did not even have the satisfaction of the start. Running along the starting line, he cut across too soon, had to wear back to the line, and start all over again. By then, Bavier had Constellation off and running, six boat-lengths ahead. Scott tried a few desultory tacks, mostly for exercise, then sat back...
Seamanship was never an issue; the battle had been won and lost long months before on the designers' drawing boards. Sovereign's Scott actually put his boat across the starting line five lengths ahead. But Rival Helmsman Bob Bavier simply sailed Constellation through Sovereign's lee, within 15 minutes had a ten-length lead as Designer Olin Stephens' powerful hull knifed smoothly through the buffeting swells, while Sovereign pounded like a flat-bottomed scow. When Constellation swept across the finish line, Sovereign was 21 miles and more than 20 minutes behind. Aboard the British tender, Sovereign...
...British boat, six times in eight races. Experts found plenty to criticize in Sovereign's construction: her untapered, top-heavy mast, her primitive rigging, her poorly cut sails. But they had nothing but praise for Scott. "I've known Peter Scott for a long time," said Bob Bavier, who will pilot Constellation, the U.S. defender. "He's liable to be real tough...
Last week, sporting a newly tailored mainsail and a genoa borrowed from Kurrewa, Sovereign looked tough indeed. Bavier was worried enough to spend a day practicing starts against Old Master Bus Mosbacher, who skippered Weatherly to a cup victory in 1962; taking the wheel of American Eagle for the first time, Mosbacher beat Bavier to the line four times in a row. Perched on the deck of a nearby cabin cruiser, Scott watched the scrimmage with interest. Back on the dock somebody asked him: "Don't you ever take a day off?" Answered Scott: "I'll think about...