Price Of Failure
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) SYDNEY
In the quiet Sydney Harbour backwater of Berry’s Bay a beautiful, sleek yacht swings at her moorings—her hull gathering weeds and barnacles.
Only her mast, cradled along the once shiny, polished deck, is protected from the winds and weather. This is Dame Pattie today—the 12-metre yacht which cost $500,000 to challenge for the America’s Cup last year. Dame Pattie, once the pride of Australia, is up for sale—at a cost estimated to
be about $lOO,OOO, including gear. The chairman of the unsuccessful Dame Pattie syndicate, Mr E. Christensen, said yesterday that he had had several inquiries about the yacht from the United States.
“But we want to keep her in Australia,” he added. Dame Pattie will almost certainly not represent Australia again in an America’s Cup. Already a new syndicate has commissioned Mr Alan Payne, the Australian designer of the equally unfortunate America’s Cup challenger Gretel in 1964, to begin work on plans for a new 12-metre yacht.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19680314.2.149
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31628, 14 March 1968, Page 15
Word Count
165Price Of Failure Press, Volume CVIII, Issue 31628, 14 March 1968, Page 15
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in