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    Red Jacket

    Jan 07, 2020 1 minute
    Illustration by Jim Ewing
    —Steve Knauth

    etween periods at a hockey game at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens in 1965, Canadian hotel builder and inveterate yachtsman Peter Connolly asked sailboat designer George Cuthbertson to build him, named after a record-setting White Star Line clipper ship from the 1850s. Launched in May 1966, the fiberglass racing machine won 11 of 13 races in Canada that season, including the prestigious Freeman Cup and the Lake Ontario International.

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