family day sailer with plenty of cockpit room and stability, is fairly fast and 

 fun to just sail or to race by either children or adults. The fact that over 

 a thousand have been built is a good indication of the fact that a good many 

 others feel that way about her. 



Philip L. Rhodes designed the Wood Pussy shortly after World War II. 

 During the winter of 1946-47 the National Wood-Pussy Class Association 

 was formed to set up controls and safeguards for a true one-design class 

 and to foster racing activities. The O'Day Corporation (9 Newbury St., 

 Boston, Mass. ) is the only franchised builder recognized by the association 

 for the construction of fiber-glass boats of the class. Plans for wooden boats 

 and the names of licensed builders of boats of this type can be obtained 

 from the National Wood-Pussy Class Association (P. O. Box 169, Wall St. 

 Station, New York 5, N.Y.). Bassett S. Winmill of the Monmouth Boat Club 

 (Red Bank, N.J.) is Commodore of the Association, and the Secretary is 

 Robert R. Schorn (Cold Spring Harbor Beach Club, Cold Spring Harbor, 

 Long Island, N.Y. ). National championships started in 1947, and regional 

 championships, which started on the East Coast, are now held on the 

 Pacific Coast and will be extended to the Great Lakes and elsewhere. 



Principal areas of sailing activity are Long Island Sound, New Jersey, the 

 Pacific Coast, upper New York State, the Great Lakes, and Massachusetts. 

 Price new is $950 to $1100, used $250 to $750; no kits are sold. 



VITAL statistics: L.O. a. 13'6"; waterline 1 1'9"; beam 6'; draft 

 without centerboard /', with C.B. 2'6"; sail area 120 sq. ft. (no spinnaker); 

 weight 430 lbs. minimum; trailable; racing crew, two. 



Y-FLYER 



This 18-foot sloop-rigged scow, with a very low freeboard and every ap- 

 pearance of great speed, is sometimes called a "15-square-meter inland lake 

 scow." Designed by Alvin Youngquist, an Inland Lake Class A Scow sailor 

 of Toledo, she had her first trial on Chippewa Lake, Ohio, in 1941. The 

 design was published in Rudder just as the United States got into World 

 War II. After the war the tlass started in Montreal and a Canadian Y- 

 Flyer Yacht Racing Association (46 Claude Ave., Dorval, Quebec) was 

 organized in 1947. The Y-Flyers became one of the largest and most active 

 classes in Canada. 



Progress was slow in the United States until 1952, when the American 

 Y-Flyer Class Association was formed. There are now about twelve hundred 

 boats in the United States and Canada, including 525 in the United States. 

 While there are a number of professional builders, well over half the regis- 



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