St. Francis Yacht Club – Speaker: Herb Motley, Author; Historian, Retired President of International One Design World Class Association

Herb Motley of Marblehead recently completed his 45th year of racing in the International One Design Class. Herb will share insights from his 10 years of research leading to the 75th Anniversary publication of a class history. He had the good fortune to crew for 10-time World Champion Bill Widnall, sailing in every port IODs can be found. He was twice-elected World President of the IOD World Class Association. His granddaughter, Abi Borggaard, competes on the Tulane University intercollegiate sailing team, so the trend continues. The IODs first came to San Francisco in 1953. The most notable IOD skipper from San Francisco was the famous Jake Wosser who won the Worlds, a then-unprecedented three times.