W. Starling Burgess

Son of Edward Burgess and designer of three consecutive J-Class Cup defenders, who also built aircraft, won the Collier Trophy, and drew the Dymaxion car with Buckminster Fuller.

Firms

Burgess & Packard (1902); Burgess Company and Curtis (1910); Burgess, Swasey & Paine (1922–26); Burgess & Morgan (1926)

Aviation

Collier Trophy, 1915; the Burgess Company was Marblehead's largest employer at 800 people

Honour

National Sailing Hall of Fame, 2013

• 1928Atlantic one-design
• 1930Enterprise — J-Class Cup defender
• 1934Rainbow — J-Class Cup defender
• 1937Ranger — J-Class Cup defender, with Olin Stephens