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...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...
...from a New York syndicate in 1961, had "ruined a good boat" by tampering with her (Columbia's keel had been shortened), that Skipper Cornelius ("Glit") Shields Jr., 28, the owner's nephew, was too young and inexperienced to handle a big America's Cup yacht...
...against Gretel next month. Tradition is firmly with the U.S. In in years, the U.S. has never lost a match for the quaint Victorian monstrosity that cost 100 guineas (about $500) new and remains securely bolted to the bottom of a glass trophy case in the New York Yacht Club...
...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...
Following films of the '58 race, maker Ted Hood, who designed and now skippers the Boston yacht, described innovations in design Nefertiti. The boat, he said, is what shorter and wider than there twelves, with her mast stepped somewhat aft to allow for the use of a larger Genoa...