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As a first-ever written history of its kind, this book looks back at the historical role four Twin Cities lakes, its boat designers and builders, and yacht clubs and local champion sailors played in helping establish the sport of yacht racing in America, and helped advance the sport to where it is today in Minneapolis/St. Paul, the Midwestand United States. A book written on Minnesota's history of fast racing yacht development in the late 1800s and early 1900s and up to today. It captures the heritage of the innovative dinghy and scow-type boat builders and Minnesota yacht clubs who initiated the birth of the sport of yacht racing locally and nationally. Filled with fascinating details, with boat skipper profiles and sailing fast secrets, the history includes photography of both vintage and today's state-of-the-art inland lake racing yachts. It explores the history-making sailors, the early sailing scene and its impact on Minnesota and Twin Cities sports and social history, the rich traditions of these lakes' yacht clubs, women in yachting, local sailboat designers/builders, the yachts and regattas, champion adult, collegiate and youth sailors, ice boating, windsurfing, race course formats and race officiating. The history chronologically traces the development of the scow racing design, the scow builders' beginnings and their multi-class racing designs that led to its popular style today, the leading class of racing sailboats on inland lakes. Further, it includes a special section on the life's lessons learned from competitive sailing and full of fun illustrative anecdotes on the sport.

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Author Tim Browne, a fomer adjunct marketing professor at the University of St. Thomas--Opus School of Business (and University of Minnesota BA Degree in Journalism), is a Minneapolis marketing firm business owner (began in 1987) after working with leading U.S. advertising agencies Young & Rubicam Detroit (Chrysler) and Saatchi and Saatchi New York (Toyota) and corporately with WarnerMedia/HBO and Anheuser-Busch InBev. His Minneapolis founded company, Browne+Browne Marketing, has created and managed consumer product advertising, promotions and events for clients such as Polaris, Dodge, Chrysler, Jeep, Ralston Purina, Indian Motorcycles, Wells Fargo, Inland Lake Yachting Association, National Class A-Scow Association, Yacht Racing Union of the Great Lakes, Miami Yacht Club and others, and his firm's division, Browne+Browne Books, published an international award-winning children's book Quacky Smacky & Tacky in 2020. After being a high school Hall of Fame athlete in footbal, baseball and basketball, he was Big Ten scholarship athlete at the University of Minnesota (football), Browne joined a racing team on A-Scow and E-Scow Classes racing throughout the Midwest out of the Minnetonka Yacht Club. He also raced yachts competitively on the East Coast and the Bahamas and whose event marketing firm managed corporate sponsorships and publicity for over 30 yacht racing regattas throughout the U.S. In competitive sailing, Browne was a champion race winning in the 1977 TransSuperior Race, the 1977 A-Scow Invitational regatta and multiple-years of Minnetonka Yacht Club Championships. He had a short acting career, as a suporting actor in Neil Simon's Oscar-winning The Heartbreak Kid.

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