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ought to get rid of it.
“Bob, this sail is not very good”. [Sail-
design. Olin’s point to the boys was that ing with Olin could be expensive].
young people ought to understand the im- His last sail was in June 2007. He brought
portance of recognizing and grasping an his new sweetheart, Rusty, with him from his
opportunity. home in Hanover. We sailed from Castine to
While at the helm in a spinnaker leg of a Brooklin Boat Yard in Center Harbor with
race in Jericho Bay and listening to the demo- Matt Murphy, Maynard Bray and Tom Jack-
cratic tactical discussion amongst the crew, son all of whom he kept busy re-rigging the
Olin said, “The rest of you can debate the running back-stay tackle to his liking. The
issue all you want, but in twenty seconds, occasion was launching day for the
we are going to jibe.” We won the race. His Sparkman & Stephens designed ANNA
advice was sparse but always taken. which was inspired by one of Olin’s
“I like some weather helm”. It seemed favorite’s, STORMY WEATHER. As we ap-
that Olin drove by the hull and its relation- proached, with ANNA in slings, he observed,
ship to the sea as well as the sails. “The runners are not rigged”. He had not
“The clue area of the genoa, [we have missed a thing. Indeed, Olin’s attention to
found from Professor Horst Richter’s stud- detail could be embarrassing, but he whole-
ies in fluid analysis at Dartmouth in recent heartedly approved of STORMY
years], is more important than previously WEATHER’s legacy.
thought…always try to use your biggest Olin and Rusty (who was described by
genoa…yacht designers have gone about Castine’s Margaret Booth as “the luckiest
as far as we can go in hull design, but we lady in Hanover”) came back this summer
have a way to go in sail design. for the Classic Races. Olin was not strong
“I would replace FALCON’s Highfield enough to sail. He was able to go for one
lever system [for running back-stay day on the Race Committee boat to see his
tensioning] with a two-part block and tackle. DORADE win the Castine race, exclaiming
“The double head stay rig does give with a cheer, “this is the best birthday present
some advantage, but it adds too much weight I could ever have!” For ERR he was on
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