The pirate from Peachtree takes on the Aussies
At Manhattan's venerable New York Yacht Club, where tradition changes as slowly as the membership rolls, they say that if a foreigner ever wins their hallowed trophy, it will be replaced in its case by the losing skipper's head. Robert E. (Ted) Turner III, alias "the Mouth " Terrible Ted" and "Captain Outrageous," is not worrying. Nor are the club's blue-blazered elders. For if winds and weather—and the portents—are right, Terrible Ted this week will begin a successful defense of the America's Cup.
Potbellied and ugly...
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