ATLANTIC 



The Atlantic is a good example of a class that is being revitalized by 

 fiber glass with flotation tanks added. Originally made of wood in Germany 

 in 1929 by Abeking and Rasmussen, it is now built of fiber glass by the 

 Cape Cod Shipbuilding Company (Wareham, Mass.). Designed by the 

 late W. Starhng Burgess, Atlantics have been a famihar and beautiful sight 

 on Long Island Sound for many years; some of them are also to be seen on 

 Blue Hill Bay, Maine. To quote the class Secretary: "The class has been 

 decreased to about seventy active boats with the loss of about twenty-five 

 boats to storms and hurricanes through the years. The class has been opened 

 up again with the allocation of number 101 to be used when the first new 

 Atlantic is built." 



"The Atlantic," to quote an enthusiast, "combines the ideal sailing of a 



ATLANTIC. Courtesy Atlantic Class Association. 



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