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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)
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William Francis Gibbs
American architect and engineer
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Ben Lexcen
Australian yachtsman
Ted Turner in a suit and tie sits in front of a blue backdrop reading The National Press Club during a speaking event.
Ted Turner
American entrepreneur and philanthropist
Steve Fossett, wearing a flight suit and red harness, smiles while seated in the cockpit of the Virgin Atlantic GlobalFlyer aircraft at NASA Kennedy Space Center.
Steve Fossett
American aviator
John Ericsson, detail of an oil painting by Charles Loring Elliott; in the Science Museum, London.
John Ericsson
Swedish-born American naval engineer and inventor
Isherwood, B.F.
B. F. Isherwood
United States naval engineer
Charles Francis Adams III
Charles Francis Adams III
United States official
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Robert Livingston Stevens
American engineer
David Watson Taylor
David Watson Taylor
American naval architect
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Donald McKay
American naval architect
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John Willis Griffiths
American naval architect
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Joshua Humphreys
American ship designer
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Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
American naval architect
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William Henry Webb
American naval architect
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Russell Coutts
New Zealand yachtsman
Peyron, Bruno
Bruno Peyron
French yachtsman
Jacques Rogge
Jacques Rogge
Belgian athlete and physician
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Dame Ellen MacArthur
British yachtswoman
Ainslie, Ben
Ben Ainslie
British yachtsman
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Paul Elvstrøm
Danish yachtsman