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In 1928, Starling Burgess designed a 30-foot sloop that would become the one-design Atlantic. Fleet racing continues today in the northeast, with yachting historian John Rousmaniere reporting on the birth and survival of the Atlantic class for WoodenBoat magazine:
The 1920s were a boom time for all Americans, but especially sailors. In the thriving economy, old waterfronts were converted from commercial ports to yacht clubs, many of them devoted to the new idea of junior sailing with equal opportunity for girls and boys.
One of the best-known young sailors of the time was Lorna Whittelsey Hibberd. A graduate of the junior program founded in 1924 by the Indian Harbor Yacht Club in Greenwich, Connecticut, in her teens and twenties she won five national women’s championships for the Adams Cup and many other prizes as well against sailors of all ages…
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