A scion of a patrician family familiar to yacht clubs, he devoted his life to racing and its rules, with a hand in the America’s Cup, the Olympics and training the young.
Source: New York Times
Harry Anderson, ‘ M.V.P. of American Sailing,’ Is Dead at 98
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