European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 12, 1967, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Tie America s cup dwv9h m isl history s longest sea Battle be by Sid Moody a staff writer the longest sea Battle in history i scheduled to resume off Newport r.i., today. This is the struggle for the America scup. For 116 years yachtsmen from Britain Canada and Australia have tried to win the bulbous bottomless old Tro Phy from the grip of the new Yorka Chat club. For 115 years in 19 differ ent Challenge series the american yachtsmen have Defeated their rivals. In fact the americans have lost Only six of the 64 individual races probably the most remarkable monopoly in sports. The old Schooner America an upstart Yankee come lately from the United states first won the trophy in 1851. She sailed the Atlantic to England to beat 14 of Britain s fastest yachts in a race around the Isle of Wight. This year a full scale replica of the America launched this Spring will be on hand to see if the american defender from the new York yacht club can keep the record intact. The 1967 challenger is Dame Pattie from Australia. The american defender in the Best of seven series is intrepid radically designed boat from the boards of Olin Stephens who has turned out two of the last three american victors. The races will be run this year a they have since the series resumed in 1958 following a lapse of 21 years in12-meter sloops. The boats average about 69 feet in length. They vary in size another dimensions because they Are built according to an intricate formula which when reduced must equal the numeral 12. If a designer wants a larger sail area for instance he must make a sacrifice in some other dimension soothe sloops Are rarely if Ever identical. Warwick Hood designed Dame Pattie named for the wife of sir Gordon men Zies former australian prime  boat showed Good Speed in trials Down under against Gretel the australian 12 that threw a scare into the a defender intrepid booms along off the Newport coast in final tune up run. New Bedford v a. I St i my i Aii the i Portsmouth Newport first race sept. 12, 1967 Narragansett titcoui2sb, americans in winning a race against Weatherly in 1962. Intrepid will be under the helmsman ship of bus Mosbacher who May be the Best skipper of 12s in the world. He has repeatedly beaten the american 12s vying to be picked As  them is Constellation a Steph ens designed 12 that was called a super boat when she swamped the British Chal Lenger Sovereign in four straight race sin 1964.  in 1964, this year s cup series will be sailed around a 24.3-mile triangular olympic course. The opening leg will be sailed directly into the wind. Thesis called taking or beating. The finely tuned 12s can sail As close As 35 degrees into the direction of the wind. After this first Windward leg the sloops sail two Broad reaches which Means the wind is coming from the Side abeam or from behind astern. Then they sail up Down and up the first leg to Complete the race. In the boat against boat match racing of the America s cup it is Paramount never to let the opponent get too faraway. If he does you May find your self becalmed in a windless pocket while he is off enjoying a vagrant puff that missed you. That s Why at the starting line the rivals stalk each other like wary wolves hoping to get the advantage. Either crossing the line to Windward Between the opponent and the wind or in a Safe Leeward position downwind from the opponent but even enough wit him so that the turbulent Back wind coming off his sails does t disturb the wind you re sailing in. If that happens the downwind skipper usually come about or tacks hoping to Clear his wind and Force his rival into som error by compelling him to tack also to cover the downwind Craft. The legs sailed into the wind Are  to Victory. Downward sailing is More a matter of sheer Power with the big spinnakers pulling the boats at nearly maximum Speed. Sailing into the wind is More a test of helmsman ship tactics and Crew agility. It takes about 10 Strong finely trained men to handle the sails particularly the big Genoa jibs during frequent tacking. The 12s May try several different Genoa and spinnakers during a race depending on wind strength. The main sail Bent on before the race is invariably the Only one used for that race. The 12s also often use a Small Jib called a Cheater when they Are carrying spinnakers. Stephens made a Surprise Depar Ture from conformity this year when he put the big Coffee grinder winches below decks. They Are used to handle intrepid s Genoa and other  figured keeping the weight of the costly machines As Low As possible inthe boat would make it stiffer stand up straighter in a blow. A tender boats one that tips or heels Over readily in a Strong wind losing some of it efficiency. Generally the stiffer the boat the faster. The 12s" Crew includes helmsman navigator Winch crackers and line handlers. Opposing Mosbacher at Dampattie s wheel will be Jock sturrock who acquitted himself ably against mos Bacher in the 1962 Weatherly Gretal series. Daimon Runyon once said that watch ing in America s cup race is As exciting As u etching grass grow. Nonetheless huge and varied Armada of Spectator Craft usually turn out presenting a spec Tacle that is often More of a show than the lace itself. By if sturrock wins a race or two All Jeres will turn Back to the 12s, for America in t Likely to surrender to easily the cup she has held since Queen Victoria was a Young woman. Ite i towering a class yachts which fought Over America s cup in 1930s Are silhouetted against sky during race. Editor s note staff writer Sid h ? a supple covered the America s cup races in the 1930s for United press. L following is his report of the magnificent Days of the a boats awesome if creatures of sail that have Long since phone to the wrecker s Yards re by Sid Whipple staff writer be Page 12 the stars and stripes australian challenger Dame Pattie boils along before following wind near Newport. Tuesday september 12, 1967 old timers whose memories Goback to the glamorous Days on Long Island sound when sea going sky scrapers of the a class fought it out for the America s cup Are inclined to regard the 12-meter contenders As some thing Akin to mini yachts. The 12-meter enthusiast of course would hotly dispute the inference that there is anything diminutive about his boat and will Pride fully Point out that an equal perhaps Superior amount of seamanship is required to work a boat of this class around the buoys of a 24-or 30-mile course As to navigate a yacht twice its size Over the same  will also note that today s Crews Are amateurs instead of the professionals a class Skippers used to re Cruit from Scandinavia and newfound land fishing fleets and the British Royal Navy. In his eyes this makes the matches More  he cannot deny however that the Era of the big a class racers the years when sir Thomas Lipton and after him to. O. M. Sopwith fought valiantly but vainly to take the America s cup Backoo the old country was one of the most spectacular periods in the Century Long struggle for yachting supremacy. Three meetings of the towering j class yachts in the third decade of Thi Century brought this phase the heavy weight phase of International racing to a Brilliant Climax. And to its close. In 1930, Tom Lipton the genial Iris Tea merchant and ardent Yachtsman brought Over his Shamrock a flying the colors of the Royal Ulster yacht club to make his final run for the cup. He was matched against com Moore Harold s. Vanderbit s enter prise. The entire country was in a proper mood to sit Back and enjoy the match. We were at peace with few War Clouds on the horizon. The nation was it is True entering the great depression continued on Page 14 i i a the America by Charles Boswell David Mckay this history of the yacht America which won the America scup currently being contested off the new England coast is no Mere soggy collection of expertise on boating it is a tribute Toa Beauty and to the men that built and sailed her from the first glorious Triumph off the Isle of Wight to the final crushing end 91 years later. At first Blush a Book about a yacht seems to be a sure candidate for the remainders table but author Charles Boswell s deft pen he s a professional writer and his painstaking research combi Neto make the Story a near epic reflecting not Only the America but also the times in which she was built raced fought and died. When launched May 3, 1851, the America weighed 170 tons was96 / 2 feet Overall and Drew nine feet. She was a work of Art Plain and simple no testing tanks no drafting boards shaped her Hull. Rather designer George steers built her in the method of the times by carving Hull after Hull until he arrived at one that pleased his Eye and his image of the  was a Gaff rigged Schooner with to sails and fore sails and Mains that were the Best in the world at the time and she sol for $20,000, two thirds of the original Price because of the delay. Yachts like the America simply Aren t built today if they were the Price would be sky High perhaps As much As the $1 million plus it lakes to bring current America s cup 12-meter racers  s yachtsmen must be satisfied with plastic rubber and Nylon her masts were 79 and 81 towering feel Tal of five different Woods White Oak Locust Hac Matack. Planking was i rec Inch thick 2 Inch yellow Pine and she was Copper fastened throughout fro the keel to six inches above the water line. After Short Shakedown crusts the America which was owned by a Syndicate of new York yachtsmen crossed the at lactic with a professional Captain old  Brown and a Crew of 15, As Well As designer steers and his brother. She passed Sandy a i la clipping off 11  five Days spent scattering in becalmed seas the America still made  Havre in ? Days six hours. The owners then joined the Schooner for the tests in store against British yachts. Imi route to the racing area the America matched its Speed against the English Cutter Laverock and took it on an upwind beat. The americans had originally hoped for a 10,000 Guinea Chal Lenge race but there were no takers among the British sporting papers had already published fearful accounts of the America s continued on Tojo l a 1, and her Frame was Cedar Chestnut and White Oak the deck the stars and strips Page 13