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Born April 13, 1908 • New York City • New York
Died September 13, 2008 (aged 100) • Hanover • New Hampshire
Awards And Honors Fastnet Race (1931)
Paul Elvstrøm
Danish yachtsman
William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
Ben Lexcen
Australian yachtsman
Ted Turner
Ted Turner
American entrepreneur
Steve Fossett
Steve Fossett
American aviator
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-American engineer
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
Charles Francis Adams III
Charles Francis Adams III
United States official
Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
David Watson Taylor
David Watson Taylor
American naval architect
Donald McKay
American naval architect
John Willis Griffiths
American naval architect
Joshua Humphreys
American ship designer
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
American naval architect
William Henry Webb
American naval architect
Russell Coutts
New Zealand yachtsman
Peyron, Bruno
Bruno Peyron
French yachtsman
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Rogge
Belgian athlete and physician
Dame Ellen MacArthur
British yachtswoman
Ainslie, Ben
Ben Ainslie
British yachtsman