ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 



So many people helped me on this book that it is impossible to note 

 here more than a few, though many of their names are scattered through 

 these pages in the accounts of the various sailboat classes. Class secretaries, 

 yacht designers, boat builders, editors of boating magazines and writers 

 for these magazines, dealers, racing skippers, yachtsmen from many parts 

 of the United States and abroad contributed information and opinions for 

 this book. 



Besides the many articles in yachting magazines from which information 

 was gleaned, of especial help was the list and information compiled an- 

 nually for Yachting's Boat Owners Buyers Guide under the heading "One 

 Design Class Boats." Another valuable source of information was The 

 Sailing Cruisers of ig62— being a catalogue of Stock Boats from iS' to 45' 

 available in U.S.A. This was brought out by the Skipper (Second St. at 

 Spa Creek, Annapolis, Md. ) . One Design Sailboat Classes, published by 

 the National Association of Engine and Boat Manufacturers, also provided 

 much useful information, as did the yearbook of the Yacht Racing As- 

 sociation of Long Island Sound. 



Among the books which proved helpful, besides the numerous class 

 yearbooks and other publications, was the most interesting Forty Years 

 among the Stars, by Commodore George W. Elder (Schanen and Jacque, 

 publisher. Port Washington, Wisconsin; obtainable through the Interna- 

 tional Star Class Yacht Racing Association, 51 East 42nd St., New York 

 17, N.Y.). Another was Modern Sailing Catamarans, by Robert B. Harris 

 (Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, N.Y.). 



Magazines from which much was learned included Motor Boating, 

 Popular Boating, One Design Yachtsman, Rudder, The Skipper, Sports 

 Illustrated, and Yachting. 



In closing I should like especially to express my appreciation to the 

 following for their help: Joseph H. Choate, William S. Cox, William J. H. 

 Dyer, W. H. de Fontaine, Donald K. Evans, Walter C. Hadley, Robert B. 

 Harris, James M. and Allegra K. Mertz, James T. Northrop, Donald G. 

 Parrot, Philip L. Rhodes, Critchell Rimington, Drake Sparkman, Roderick 

 Stephens and OHn J. Stephens 11, William H. Taylor, Ralph Thacher, Mrs. 

 John C. White, Jr., and Peter Wilson. 



FraST EDITION 



Library of Congress Catalog Card Number 63-11201 



Copyright © 1963 by Fessenden S. Blanchard 



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