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INDIAN. Courtesy John MacDonald. 



INDIAN 



The 21-foot Indian-class centerboard sloop was designed by the late John 

 G. Alden and took the water in 1924 at the Squantum Yacht Club, About 

 one hundred were built, of which about fifty are still sailing, chiefly on 

 Massachusetts and Narragansett bays. Former Secretary John MacDonald 

 writes that eighteen to twenty-four are still being raced actively on Massa- 

 chusetts Bay and "we are, at the present time, trying to develop interest in 

 this type of boat, rather than the planing type, and I think we have been 

 having some success. Interest is on the upswing because of the boat's ability 

 to sail well under all conditions." 



Ford Dame (35 Coolidge St., Weymouth, Mass.) is now Secretary of the 

 class. Construction is of wood. This is one of the old-time classes and seems 

 destined eventually to give way to the swarming group of new ones. It is 

 comforting, however, to old-timers to know that efforts to keep a fine old 

 class going are meeting with some success. We have no price on new ones. 



VITAL statistics: L.O.A. 21V; waterline iB'g"; beam 6^4''; draft 

 without centerboard 18", with C.B. down 3'6"; sail area 230 sq. ft. (spin- 

 naker); weight 1200 lbs.; racing crew, two. 



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