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During films of the J Boats contending in 1937's Cup race, Nefertiti's sailing master Fred Sawton observed that after World War II the expense of maintaining a yacht of J Boat proportions (150 feet long) has forced a switch to the smaller twelves. It was not 1958, however, that Commodore Henry Sears of the New Yacht Club arranged for the post-war challenge race between the American Columbia and British Secptre...
...continent away from Atlanta, the steel skeletons of San Diego's new skyscrapers stretch above the immaculate white city that curves back from the Pacific toward the Laguna Mountains. The yacht basins are crowded with boats; sumptuous motels for sybaritic tourists are rising outside town. But beneath the clamor and the glitter, San Diego-the city that brashly bet heavily on the aircraft industry and cleaned up for nearly 15 years-is in missile-age trouble...
...Bennett's only accomplishment was the winning of a transatlantic yacht race. But at his father's insistence, he put in some time in the Herald city room. There was no nonsense, of course, about starting from the bottom. When he was 26, his father retired, and he took over-not so much by settling down to hard work as by stirring the Herald to his own pitch of capriciousness. As he was to do throughout his lifetime, he hired and fired people according to whimsey, and terrorized staffers with a system of office spies (called "White Mice...
...Tuning up for the final trials to pick a defender for the America's Cup, the U.S. 12-meters took turns showing their sterns to one another in the New York Yacht Club's annual cruise. Six races were evenly divided, Nefertiti, Weatherly and Easterner each winning twice. Gretel, Sir Frank Packer's Australian challenger, suffered a minor but quickly repaired embarrassment when she snapped her boom on the first...
...launched myriad ships, Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos knew precisely what he wanted for the 55-mile watery commute from his island villa to his port city office in Piraeus. From British shipyards came the world's fastest 102-ft. yacht, capable of 54 knots at top speed. But Mercury gobbled gas at the rate of 115 gallons an hour, the radar went snafu, and two of the three 3,500-h.p. gas turbine engines had to be replaced. "Teething troubles," said the British builder. Feeling the bite himself, the thrifty Greek docked his hot yacht and looked...