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M.Pussycat (talk | contribs) m I learned to sail on these boats at the Biloxi Yacht Club and have seen many pictures of them with the club foot jib. I have sen them single handed, but never less than 3 during a race; perhaps with the club foot there were just two. |
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The '''Fish class sloop''', also known informally as '''Fish Boat''' is a [[One-Design|one-design]] [[sailboat]] designed in 1919 by [[New Orleans]] resident Rathbone De Buys,<ref>http://www.fishclass.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=2:2 {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070310211531/http://www.fishclass.org/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page&PAGE_id=2&MMN_position=2%3A2 |date=2007-03-10 }} Online transcript of De Buys' 1948 short history of the design</ref> member of the [[Southern Yacht Club]]. It is reputed to have been the most popular sailboat racing class on the [[Gulf Coast of the United States|US Gulf Coast]] in the early 20th century<ref>[http://www.southernyachtclub.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=33&Itemid=97 Southern Yacht Club - History<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> and was the Gulf Yachting Association one-design racer until it was replaced by the [[Flying Scot (dinghy)|Flying Scot]] in 1969.
It should not be confused with [[Nathanael Herreshoff| Nat Herreshoff's]] larger sloops,<ref>{{cite book| last = Jones| first = Gregory O.| authorlink = | coauthors =| title = Herreshoff Sailboats| publisher = MBI Publishing Company| date = December 25, 2004| ___location = St. Paul| page = 118| url = | doi = | id = | isbn = 978-0-7603-1160-8}}</ref> the [[Annisquam]] Fish Class [[Marconi rig]]ged catboats,<ref>[http://www.dngoodchild.com/divide_for_sail_boats.htm divide_for_sail_boats<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> nor various [[motor yacht]]s and [[surfboard]]s of similar names.
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