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THIRTY CLASS ("New York Thirties") . Photo by Morris Rosenfeld. 



built to this minimum and thus gave rise to several good yams. One of them, 

 told to the writer on what seemed like good authority, is about a leading 

 member of the Club who had sold his much larger boat and found himself 

 temporarily without a yacht which would qualify him as a voter. A friend 

 suggested that a somewhat inactive Thirty might be bought for a song. The 

 yachtless member purchased the Thirty without previous inspection, only 

 to have his secretary discover later that his Thirty had been sunk for several 

 years (according to one version of the story), or was a derelict (according 

 to another version). 



VITAL statistics: L.O.A. 43'6''; waterline 30'; beam 8'io''; draft 

 6^3''; sail area about 1000 sq. ft. 



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THE SAILBOAT CLASSES OF NORTH AMERICA 



