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...sail is no good. The trick is to come around and put the other boat in your back wind." By doing just that, and holding her lead, Toni brought her boat in first in two 2½-mile races and a conclusive 5-miler. For Toni's Manhassat Bay Yacht Club, it was the first Scovill Cup victory in 25 years of midget racing...
Toni has been sailing ever since her father, Arnold E. Monetti, Manhassat Bay's commodore, bought an Atlantic class (30-ft.) sloop nine years ago. Nobody taught her to sail: "I just learned how by doing it." A ninth-grader, Toni hopes to become an artist because "you can't make a living out of sailing." But, like most of her fellow midgets, she fully intends to keep on racing, too. When she reaches 18, Toni will sail in women's class events; the women's champion of the Sound is feted each year with...
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