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1861 – 1927 · Long Island Sound, New York

Thomas Fleming Day

Editor of The Rudder — New York

Founded and edited The Rudder for twenty-six years, founded the Bermuda Race, and crossed the Atlantic in a twenty-five-foot yawl to prove small boats could do it.

The Rudder
Founded and edited 1890 to April 1916 — the magazine that published designs to amateurs and made home boatbuilding a mass activity
Bermuda Race
Founded 1906
Atlantic
Crossed in the 25-ft yawl Sea Bird, 1911
Honour
National Sailing Hall of Fame, 2019
  • 1918Islander — yawl; later sailed by Harry Pidgeon on the second solo circumnavigation

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