BOOM CUT ON DAME PATTIE
(Special Crspdl. N.Z.P.A.) NEWPORT (Rhode Island). Shipyard workers with a pneumatic chisel cut nearly eight inches off the boom of the Australian America’s Cup challenger Dame Pattie. The 12-metre yacht is on the slips having her bottom rubbed down and her gear checked. The yacht’s designer, Mr W. Hood, who supervised the shortening of the boom said: “It was always too long. We knew this in Sydney.”
Hood explained that the alteration had been put off because of Dame Pattie’s busy schedule of trials and racing in Sydney and in Newport. “There was the problem of having the mainsails reshaped to go with the shortened boom,” Hood said. The busy programme of sail evaluation and recutting since the Australians came to Newport has included altering the shape of the mainsails of various weights which Dame Pattie will use in the cup races next month.
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Press, Volume CVII, Issue 31462, 31 August 1967, Page 13
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