Providence, R.I.
Rick, a noted college sailor and sailing supporter, died July 10. Racing as a boy on Narragansett Bay, at famed Edgewood Yacht Club, Rick went on to be one of the top collegiate skippers in the country, winning the National Championship for Brown University in 1948, a title Brown has not won since.
Also in 1948, then commodore of the Brown University Yacht Club, he was elected president of the Intercollegiate Yacht Racing Association. He brought together the Midwest and Pacific Coast associations with the East Coast organization, to form what is today the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association (ICSA).
In the early ’70s, Rick was a racing member of Norton Yacht Club (Darien, Conn.), and he sailed Ensigns, battling against Jim Fox and Sandy McDonald for podium spots while also doing many long-distance and Newport-Bermuda races. His later sailing included several Marion-Bermuda races and one-design racing at the Orleans Yacht Club on Cape Cod.
