Yachting Gretel Given Tests
(NJ!. Press Assn.—Copyright) NEWPORT (Rhode Island). August 9. Australian yachtsmen took their entire America's Cup ••fleet” to sea yesterday, spending seven hours about eight or nine miles offshore The challenge yacht, the 12metre Gretel, spent the day trying out a new cockpit arrangement and new placement of winches. With her was the trial yacht. Vim, and both tenders.
It was the first time the Gretel has been to sea since ' he «b>rt of the New York Yacht Club races. The Gretefs designer, Alan Payne, has spent the last week in the shipyard supervising * n the cockpit—mainly the shiftinr of the wheel aft backs,a X*. the Associated Press reported.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29897, 10 August 1962, Page 13
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