Clean (Plastic) Sweep
Produced specially for the 1952 Olympic Games, the Finn has been chosen once more for one-man competition at Tokyo in 1964.
The designer, Richard Sarby, who produced a near-perfect boat-re-markable for its whippy, revolving mast that is supported without stays—said a few weeks ago that if he had to design
the boat again he would make no alteration except to provide a stronger boom. New Zealanders who broke 19 boom* (in a fleet of IB) at Wellington in a gale last month during their national championship* would
agree with him. The recent world championships for the class in Germany were won for the first time by a plastic boat. That a new era in the Finn elaas had come was signified by the first three places being taken by plastic boats, all of them of different make. Andre Nolte, of Belgium, won hi* second world championship in a Dutch-made plastic boat The runner-up Han* Fogh, of Denmark—aailed a Finn made in France. And the American, Fred Miller, who was third, skippered a plastic craft made in the United States.
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Press, Volume CI, Issue 29744, 10 February 1962, Page 9
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