A fish merchant who became the designer of roughly five hundred Gloucester schooners, shortening the bowsprit that killed so many crews and setting the lines the whole fleet copied.
- Reform
- The shortened bowsprit and extended stern overhang — the 'McManus lines'
- Reputation
- Called the father of the fishermen's races
- 1907Rose Dorothea — Lipton Cup winner
- —Esperanto
- 1924Henry Ford
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