Boys of the Bay

1976, Born to Run was on the radio, Marathon Man was on the big screen and the country was celebrating two centuries of independence. The sailing team at the Naval Academy had been moribund for decades but a new man at the top, Captain Alexander Graham Bell Grosvenor, had attracted enough talented men, money and boats to build a racing fleet unrivaled anywhere. He gave his midshipmen competitive yachts and sent them out for a summer of sailing races and socializing in the Yacht Clubs from A...