Sports
The second day of Congressional Cup competition off Long Beach Thursday was the Newport, R.I., nightmare for Dennis Conner all over again--trying to win with a slower boat.
March 15, 1985
It takes no deep knowledge of sailing to know which of these names is out of place in the 21st Congressional Cup series at Long Beach starting today: Dennis Conner, Ted Turner, John Shadden.
March 13, 1985
Whether the 1992 America’s Cup is in San Diego or Auckland, New Zealand, skipper Dennis Conner will be racing for it.
June 5, 1989
Travel & Experiences
Whether the America’s Cup is in San Diego or Auckland, New Zealand, skipper Dennis Conner will be racing for it in 1992.
Dennis Conner finished the year’s sailing Sunday the way he started it: looking at the stern of a sailboat full of America 3sailors.
Dec. 14, 1992
Dennis Conner, appearing at his first news conference in weeks, said Monday that he will defend the America’s Cup in a hard-rigged catamaran instead of one with a soft sail.
Aug. 30, 1988
World & Nation
Australian yachtsman Iain Murray has rebutted charges that Dennis Conner was given inferior sails and led astray by an Australian navigator in the ANZ 12-Meter Challenge series he lost to Murray at Sydney last month, 5-3.
Feb. 22, 1989
Dennis Conner makes the United States look like the neighborhood bully who adjusts the rules as he goes to ensure he will take home all the marbles.
Sept. 10, 1988
Archives
Dennis Conner, who lost the America’s Cup and won it back, is among the 16 entries in the 82nd Lipton Challenge Cup, a two-day event sponsored the Balboa Yacht Club beginning Saturday.
May 30, 1997
Olympics
Through freak tornadoes and killer waves, PACT 95’s men from Maine with the mermaid on their boat just kept winning and seemingly had little to fear from a boat sailed by women or an aging campaigner with a crippled craft.
April 23, 1995