AMERICA’S CUP TRIAL
Australian ‘Delighted’
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY. Dame Pattie was the fastest 12-metre yacht in the world and she could win the America’s Cup, the Australian yachtsman, J. Sturrock, said. “She is the best balanced boat of any class I’ve sailed and remarkably fast in all conditions,” he said. Sturrock skippered Gretel in Australia’s first America’s Cup challenge in 1962 but was beaten 4-1 by the American defender, Weatherly. Either Gretel or Dame Pattie will make the challenge next year.
“By next September, when our crew has had another eight months’ solid training in Sydney and on the cup course off Newport, Rhode Island, I’m sure Dame Pattie will be a match for anything the Americans put up as a defender,” Sturrock said. Sturrock put the 65ft, 26ton Dame Pattie and her potential cup crew through eight hours’ tough sea trials on Sunday and said he was delighted with the result. They travelled a total of 60 miles, tacking 63 times, and gybing the 3000-sq. ft spinnaker 34 times.
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Press, Volume CVI, Issue 31223, 22 November 1966, Page 19
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