Bruce Kirby, The Bruce Kirby Story: From the River to the Sea by Harry T. Holman
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Résumé
Recreational and competitive sailing engages hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of participants all over the world.The work of designers, builders, and sailors has its own body of literature which, although frequently of a very high quality, does not always result in peer-reviewed, academic presentation.Popular journals, such as the now-discontinued Maritime Life and Traditions and WoodenBoat are sources of well-researched and well-written historical articles but do not often appear in bibliographies.By the same token, nonacademic monographs, especially those documenting the more recent period, are often overlooked as sources for nautical history.Such may be the case with the recent publication of The Bruce Kirby Story; From the River to the Sea.Kirby, who died in 2021, was a Canadian yachtsman and competitive sailor who represented Canada in three Olympic Games.His greatest legacy, however, will probably be as a designer.The Laser sailing dinghy, which he developed in 1969, became an international class sailed in over 120 countries and well over 200,000 of the diminutive single-person racers have been produced.The boat is currently the Olympic single-hander class boat.In all, Kirby designed 62 boats during a 50-year period and these designs, which included America's Cup challengers and custom yachts, account for another 8,000 boats.Kirby's contribution to the sport of sailing was recognized by his appointment to the Order of Canada, the nation's highest civilian honour, in 2019.The Kirby story sheds a good deal of light on the development of recreational sailing and racing in the period of the second half of the twentieth century.Kirby was a practised writer who worked for many years as a journalist, initially in the newspaper world, and later in specialist sailing magazines.Written as a memoir the volume does not purport to be a definitive history of the period but rather, a very personal account of one individual's encounters with the sailing world.As such, it is, by and large, a very readable and intriguing inside view of life within the yachting community, a community which spans local club recreational racing and cruising through to the highest levels of international match racing.The scope of Kirby's involvement in all these areas both as a competitor and developer is remarkable.Opening with an account of family sailing at Ottawa's Britannia Yacht Club, Kirby recounts his beginning in competitive racing with the International 14 class in the late 1940s.This led to his first design efforts a decade later, improving the racing craft within the class-established limitations.The story
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