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...decided last winter in a test tank in Hoboken, N.J. There, like some bathtub admiral, he spent four months testing 75 different model hulls until "I felt we had a winning design for Intrepid.'" Chance was sure of it when he saw the first photograph of Valiant under sail. "I could tell from the shape of her wake that she was in trouble," he says, and adds: "There was no turning point. We had it all season...
...last drizzly day of October 1968, 36-year-old Donald Crowhurst set sail out of Teignmouth, England, the tail-end starter in a single-handed nonstop sailboat race around the world. Eight months later, newspapers reported Crowhurst on the last leg of his voyage making excellent speed and sure to finish with the fastest time. Then came word that a freighter had discovered Crowhurst's yacht, ghosting along under its mizzen but still seaworthy, mysteriously abandoned in mid-Atlantic...
...hazard. Combining insult with injury, the county tax assessor recently ruled that the berthed vessel is legally a building, and assessed it for $5,700,000. The new classification means that the Elizabeth is one of the few buildings in the world that can hoist anchor and sail away-if only to search for a friendlier tax jurisdiction...
...they never do and it doesn't really matter. Very little does. When you are 17 or 18 and have four years in the Service ahead of you, you just "don't make waves." Wars may take place and you may help sail the ship that launches the planes that fire the bombs, but the real war takes place every day between you and the people a rank above you. And, as in any war, the goals are to win-to get six hours of sleep or eat three meals or to make it off ship when...
...seemed. Though the final trials to decide which of the three U.S. boats will defend the cup do not begin until Aug. 18, the Observation races suggested that Picker and Intrepid are ready to sail off to one of the greatest upsets in America's Cup history. When the U.S. contenders hit the water this spring, Valiant was the heavy favorite simply because she was the latest creation of Olin Stephens, the 62-year-old designer of four of the last five cup champions. In fact, Stephens' winning design for the last America...