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Winnie’s Wee Winn wins again

Winnifred Sutton was a winner and so was her controversial half-rater, appropriately named . Though derided as “scarcely dignified,” the forward-thinking Nat Herreshoff design and the lady racer became the talk of the Solent in 1892

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