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...Biggest news for sailors is Ratsey's refinement of the holed spinnaker, the Venturi. The sail has a series of horizontal slots across its top half. The breeze flowing through the slots shoots downward, thus by counteraction pushing the sail itself upward and providing extra lift. According to Designer George Ratsey, the slots also operate to reduce the "knockdown" or heeling effect on close reaches. Price: 25% higher than conventional spinnakers...
...This nonsense started in 1932, at the Knickerbocker Yacht Club in Manhasset. Somebody had imported some English pram sailing dinghies. There was a big argument, after some bathtub gin, over the merits of dinghies, and we decided to have a regatta on New Year's Day. G. Colin Ratsey won the race. He's now a partner in the sailmaking firm of Ratsey...
...this event. Each was the product of minute designing and craftsmanship. The favorite: white-hulled Columbia, created by Olin Stephens, yachting's most successful designer in the last 20 years. Columbia was skippered by dashing Car and Yacht Racer Briggs Cunningham (TIME Cover, April 26, 1954), equipped with Ratsey sails made of a special new synthetic and financed by a New York Yacht Club syndicate headed by Manhattan Financier Henry Sears...
Help! Before she became a Coast Guard Reserve boat, the 3070 was the yacht Zaida, property of the famed yacht sailmaker, George E. Ratsey (who died in New Rochelle after a long illness last week). She is a sleek, 58-ft. yawl, built for racing. Since October she had been in the Coast Guard's offshore patrol, hunting subs. Skipper Curtis Arnall in civilian life was a radio actor and well-known yachtsman; his mate, 33-year-old Joseph Choate, left a job at New York's Guaranty Trust Co. to join the Coast Guard; none...
Enterprise has eight mainsails and 50 other assorted pieces of canvas. All summer, sails have been rushed by motor truck from the Ratsey and Lapthorn loft in City Island to Enterprise and back again for alteration. Four sailmakers are on hand at Newport to make minor changes and repairs. Being launched early enough to get her sails in beautiful trim for the trials was one reason why Enterprise beat the other U. S. contestants, Weetamoe, Yankee, Whirlwind, for the right to defend the Cup. In the first trials on the Sound she proved that like Shamrock...