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The only supposition in what I added is that it was Linc Davis that suggested my grandfather take out the #2 210 to see what was wrong with it because none of the committee members did after they all drove it. Et Tu was the name of 210 #1 as reported by the Globe in 1940 and 1941. #2 didn't appear until the 1946 season and it was listed that way, as Harpoon, and as owned by C.F. Adams (the ex Secretary of the US Navy) in the Race Week roster published in the Globe in July 1946. #2 was the first production boat, so it was the one being test driven that day in Marblehead.

The suggestion was definitely from one of the committee members among: E. Sohier Welch, Francis Welch, A.N. (Bob) Winslow, Philip Benson, Frank Munro, Lincoln Davis, Jr. or Myron Hutchinson. Rolt was in Marblehead that day, with my dad, as the skipper of the 30 US40 Arista, formerly Sohier (pronounced Sawyer) Welch's 30 square meter boat that had just been sold to Mike Brady. Welch's new US One Design had finally arrived, so Welch sold his ex Evanthia III to Brady. The younger members of that committee were very familiar with my grandfather both as a skipper and as a boat builder, and my dad thinks it was Linc Davis that made the suggestion.

The yard staff at Graves were pissed off at what happened, but this wasn't the first time the Marblehead yacht clubs had seen shoddy workmanship from that yard. The flaw was obvious to my grandfather after driving the boat, and more obvious when the hull was lifted. The committee members were very happy after they each drove the boat again, after the keel realignment.

The entire remaining comments are from contemporary newspaper articles, or race results, from the Boston Globe and that is why I added the specific month, date, year and page numbers. And yes I do have a copy of each of them from The Globe, which means the writer was one of the Leonard Fowles, probably junior, who was their main sailing writer in 1946. I have not checked the Herald or the Traveler for the same accounts.

I know that this runs afoul of what people think the early 210 history was, but the boat was an outgrowth of the 110 and it filled a low-cost need for a faster larger boat. Hunt wasted no time in developing it in 1940, and altering it in 1941. Then WW II got in the way, so he didn't get back into it until 1945 --- which is how the committee knew of it because they had seen Hunt in it in Marblehead in 1945, and they of course knew him well. It was tuned sufficiently for Hunt to make it available for evaluation in 1946, but the boat didn't just appear then from scratch. It started at least 6 years earlier.

I apologize for the newbie editing efforts, and that I did not know about the Talk feature. Hope this helps.

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