Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on July 10, 2007 at 21:08:57 from 195.93.21.70 user ACB.
In Reply to: Uffa Fox posted by Jim Hadfield on July 10, 2007 at 20:42:40:
...developed the planing dinghy (his International 14, "Avenger") developed the International 10 Square Metre Canoe (still the fastest sailing dinghy apart from Foiling Moths) regularly crossed and re-crossed the Atlantic, often making the return voyage as a stoker in a Cunarder to save the fare, crossed the Channel in the aforementioned International 14, won every race at Cherbourg and crossed back again. did the same in a sliding seat canoe (!) ("Brynhild") developed the airborne sailing lifeboat to save bomber crews in WW2, designed lots mre dinghies, sailed regularly with Prince Philip and notoriously placed a whoopee cushion on Her Majesty's chair...
...and a whole lot more!
(we sail a Firefly - designed by Uffa for Cambridge University in 1936, built by Faireys after WW2, the 1948 Olympic singlehanded dinghy, still actively raced today)