Jack Banham Coggins was born in his father’s barracks during World War I in London, England on July 10, 1911. He was the only child of Ethel May (née Dobby) and Sydney George Coggins. The family emigrated to Long Island, New York in 1923. Coggins’s interest in sailing and maritime subjects began in London when …
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Star Winter Series (SWS) Presented by EFG International. Four weekends plus the 4-day Star Midwinter Championship makes the SWS the most intense winter series anywhere. For half a century, the world’s best sailors have brought their “Starboats” (as their crews call them) down to the beautiful waters of Biscayne Bay for the best in competition …
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Starling Burgess Poet: From Starling Burgess’ mother, Caroline Louisa “Kitty” Sullivant, an eminent natural scientist, he received a love of literature and poetry, which he regarded as the foundation for all accomplishment. The Eternal Laughter And Other Poems. Indiana: Repressed Publishing LLC, 2013.
The Dymaxion car was a concept car, the basic layout was designed by U.S. inventor and architect Buckminster Fuller in 1933. The word Dymaxion is a brand name that Fuller gave to several of his inventions, to emphasize that he considered them part of a more general project to improve humanity’s living conditions. The car …
Burgess was one of the great, 20th century geniuses of American design, with an extraordinary range of fields, as a inventor, poet, aviation pioneer, naval architect, automotive engineer, and America’s Cup yacht designer. Born into a Boston family of wealth and privilege on Christmas Day, 1878, the son of yacht designer Edward Burgess and Caroline …