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...whip her crew into shape and to take the helm himself for the final trials (TIME, Sept. 15). Shields stepped aside because of the strain on his ailing heart, but at week's end was hopefully determined to race against Sceptre as a relief helmsman to famed Yacht and Auto Racer Briggs Cunningham, 51, Columbia's regular skipper. And the cockpit crew will be completed by the retiring, reticent intellectual who is most responsible for Columbia's basic speed: Designer Olin Stephens, 50, world's best yacht architect...
Heavy Weather. As the designer of the 19-year-old Vim, until this summer the finest 12-meter yacht in the world, Stephens had a good head start when he settled down last winter to create the 12-meter Columbia. The new boat posed special problems. In the summer, when the trials would be run, the breezes off Newport can be as soft as a whisper, but in September, cup race time, freshening winds often turn the waters into a white-capped obstacle course...
...jaundice, never went back to college. Instead, he studied ship design so thoroughly by himself that when he was only 19 Marine Architect Drake H. Sparkman asked him to form a partnership. Later, Architect W. Starling Burgess invited Stephens to collaborate on the J-Boat Ranger, the fastest yacht in history,* which defended the America...
Both sloops were designed by famed Yacht Architect Olin Stephens; both are 69 ft. 7 in. in overall length; both are sleek products of the complex 12-meter formula, which balances off such speed-governing factors as sail area, waterline length and mast height...
Both Mosbacher and Shields are masters of the deceptively simple theory of match racing between near-equal boats, i.e., that the start, which is usually into the wind, is crucial. The boat that can leap out a bit ahead of its opponent can blanket or backwind the following yacht. Both skippers are also skilled at the sly tactics of dodging blanketing, stage such realistic faking of new tacks that their scurrying foredeck crews even prepare to take the gigantic genoa jibs to the lee side-the usual preparations for coming about...