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Hardest to get aboard was Gretel, the Australian challenger, but Sir Frank Packer finally relented. Her Aussie crew told Lamont that he was the first newsman ever allowed to sail on her, and the cruise Lamont took, in pelting rain and a 25-knot wind, had another distinction: it was the roughest weather Gretel had ever sailed in. Lamont had to pay for that passage too: he was ordered to help raise the main by winding in 400 ft. of wire on a portable plywood winch. By week's end, Lamont was happy to be all quiet...
...visa, and Happy Horie popped off to see the sights, surrounded by the giggling infield of Osaka's touring girls' Softball team. Back home, Japanese officials had to decide whether to fine Horie for illegal exit or hail him as a national hero, the first Japanese to sail the Pacific solo...
...running our own trials here-trying to get ready." Changes All Around. While Gretel has been in the U.S. only five weeks, the Yanks have been racing all summer, first in a series of "observation" trials, then on the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise. Sail lockers have been overhauled, crews weeded out, tactics plotted and replotted. Now, Henry Mercer's four-year-old Weatherly came out for the finals with her pale blue hull newly painted and polished. Ross Anderson's Nefertiti, damaged by vandals fortnight ago, was repaired and ready...
...help celebrate the Crystal Palace Exhibition (the first world's fair), members of England's Royal Yacht Squadron hit on a grand scheme: invite a U.S. boat to race-and give the brash Yankee upstarts a lesson in sailing tactics. The gauntlet was swiftly picked up by Commodore John C. Stevens, a founder of the New York Yacht Club, an ardent gambler and a shrewd sailor. The terms were tough: the course was laid out around the Isle of Wight, and Stevens' 102-ft. pilot schooner America was to race alone against the entire Royal Yacht Squadron...
Freewheeling through Europe for a month, Automaker Henry Ford II's pert post-deb daughters Charlotte, 21, and Anne, 19, got to London in time for a coming-out party, then went on to the French Riviera to sail, sun and waterski. Was their first solo trip abroad fun? Everything except those photographers who insisted on snapping the girls getting into a Renault, of all things. "They told us to do it," said Anne, but then she added happily: "We've had a fabulous, wonderful, exciting time. We've been doing just what we wanted...