Monday, January 2, 2012

Northwyn Sails Ads

During the 1970's, Northwyn Sails out of Seattle was the supplier to the hot shot West Coast fleet. Their head sail designer, Mark Schmidt, wrote an interesting article on International 14 sail development for the North American sailing rag, One Design and Offshore Yachtsman magazine. Northwyn Sails were also kind enough to put some ads into "Planing On", the class newsletter, which featured some good photographs of 14's.

The first is an International 14 start, this may have been at the CORK regatta, Kingston Ontario.......


The second photo is, I think, of Baird Bardason screaming along on a two sail reach.......



2 comments:

  1. Bardardson is a name I remember. I didn't know him. I'm sure he came to Southern Californian waters to take our glassware.

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  2. I recall, perhaps incorrectly that the photo of Baird was taken during a Yachting One of a Kind Regatta when he was the Int. 14 Class representative?

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