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National Sailing Hall of Fame - Canadian Olympian is inductee
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'Bruce Kirby'
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The National Sailing Center and Hall of Fame (NSHOF) have announced the nine sailors who will make up its 2012 class of inductees into the National Sailing Hall of Fame. Canadian native Bruce Kirby (Ottawa, Ontario) has been named as one of the inductees.
Kirby, a newspaperman and former editor of One Design Yachtsman (predecessor to Sailing World magazine) is internationally known as the designer of the Laser which is sailed in Olympic competition. Over 250,000 of the one-design single-person boat have been built since the early ‘70s. His designs also include the America’s Cup 12-Metres Canada I and Canada II, as well as the Ideal 18, San Juan 24 and the Sonar, which is raced in the Paralympics. Kirby represented Canada at the Olympic Games: sailing a Finn in 1964 and a Star in 1968. At the young age of 82 he can still be found racing a Sonar – his favorite of the 63 boats he has designed – out of the Noroton Yacht Club in Darien, Conn.
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NSHOF website
by Jan Harley
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12:55 PM Sat 18 Aug 2012GMT
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