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1960
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first Canadians/North
Americans
attracts 11-boat fleet to ABYC July 16-17
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first Cruise
Race Thousand
Islands in the St. Lawrence near Brockville
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$75 for nylon
spi, pole, mast
fittings, halliard, blocks and Terylene sheets
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1961
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C&L
prices: Kit $950;
Sub-assembled Kit $1,156; Completed Boat $1,478
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measurement
becomes mandatory
for racing
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first Trout
Lake Wayfarer
Weekend with one boat from Chicago
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Alec Lowenthal
wins first
Lansdown-O’Brien
Spittoon for "Most Prominent and Unrehearsed Effort During the
Championships"
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1962
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longer 6' 6"
spi pole introduced;
separate North American & Canadian championships
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Wayfarer
pioneers: Peter Bassin and Alan Chovil at Conestoga; Dr.
D.A.
Nichol at Fanshawe
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first U.S.
Nationals
(Chicago)
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1963
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Frank Dye
sails W48
to Iceland
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Mike
Schoenborn (new owner
of W276) and Alec Lowenthal (W151) sail across Lake Ontario
(Toronto-Youngstown-Toronto),
outraging Queen City YC keelboat sailors, some of whom broke masts on
the
same trip! Mike follows this with Canadian Nats victory
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Ottawa Fleet
started by Wayfarers
at Britannia YC & Gatineau SC
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National
Cruise Race
moves to Trout Lake
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U.S. boats (6)
enter NAC
for first time
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Team Races
at TS&CC
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first Wayfarer
Around-the-Island
Race as part of QCYC annual Cheaters’ Race
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first Michigan
Invitational
Regatta (Lake Orion) attracts 23 entries, 6 from Toronto &
Kitchener
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1964
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Frank Dye
(with sea-sick Bill
Brockbank) films W48 trip to Norway as Summer Cruise
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first
end-of-May Chicago
Regatta attracts 17 crews, 3 from Canada; stormy havoc makes TV news
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first Warm
Water Regatta
(then called International Invitational), 23 entries, several from US
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Don Rumble
becomes first Honorary
Commodore of CWOA
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Uncle Al
elected CWOA newsletter
editor
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other
débuts: Ron Gillespie W854, Ken Holloway W851, Fred
&
Anne McNutt W601/855, Uncle Al W116
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1965
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first major
rules changes
vote:
approved:
jib tracks
instead of fixed fairlead amidships
rejected:
centre
mainsheet; slot closure strips; electric BOILERS (misprint for bailers:
Don Paine comment: the weight!)
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CWOA
eliminates mandatory
buoyancy tests: really needed by cruisers who aren’t bound by Class
Rules
anyway
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Al Quantock
(W635): "A
Wayfarer will never become a 5-0-5 even by adding supersonic thruffle
nuts!"
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1966
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first glass
Wayfarer, number
1077, built in UK
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Don Healey
first US winner
of Wayfarer North Americans
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North
Americans move out of
Toronto for the first time
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débuts:
Pete & Thelma Hanson W720, Eric Stubbs W1134
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1967
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first U.S.W.A.
Yearbook produced
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47 entries to
NAC at Windsor
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George
Blanchard given Honorary
Life Membership in CWOA
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Whitby
Boatworks to build
glass Wayfarers in Canada
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débuts:
Don Davis W460, Darrell Hicks W46, Sid Atkinson W618, Mel Preston
W1064,
Graham Dodd W1183, Ivar Zalitis W867, Grace Chapman (A)
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1968
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formation of Scandinavian
Wayfarer Association (SWS)
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Croce &
Lofthouse reject
Ian Proctor offer, start CL 16/Wanderer production; CWOA rejects CL’s
above
club race level
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Canadian
Nationals
opened to entries from other countries
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sailmaker,
Heider Funck races
W734
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newsletter
mailing costs:
CWOA = 5¢, USWA = 6¢; Darrell Hicks new editor as Uncle Al
leaves
to teach in Germany ‘til July 69
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composite W’s
built at Oakville’s
Metro Marine west of Toronto
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débuts:
Nick Seraphinoff W1376, Jeff Jones W1580, Alan Phillips W866, Hubert
Dauch
W1572
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1969
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Cleveland’s
Northeast YC attracts
41 W’s to US Nats
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Alan Phillips
elected USWA
Racing Captain
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début:
Joe DeBrincat W1587
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débuts:
Hugh Thomas W921, Tom Gamey W1185
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