<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\nEIGHT BELLS – BRITTON CHANCE, JR.
\nBritton Chance Jr., lead designer for the successful 1987 and 1988 Stars &
\nStripes America’s Cup campaigns, died October 12 at the age of 72 years.<\/p>\n
Britt Chance grew up around boats – both sail and power – became seriously<\/p>\n
interested in yacht design at 15, trained in the sciences at the University<\/p>\n
of Rochester, worked at the towing tank at Stevens Institute, studied
\nmathematics at Columbia University, worked for Ray Hunt and Ted Hood, and
\nwent on his own with Chance & Company in 1962.<\/p>\n
Britt has a diverse design portfolio which ranges from racing shells to
\ndinghies to multihulls, fast cruisers and offshore racers to power boats,
\nincluding the high-tech Flarecraft, as well as Meter and America’s Cup
\nboats. Indeed, Chance is closely identified with Cup design; Britt was a
\nlead designer in both the ’87 & ’88 Stars & Stripes campaigns, played a
\nleading role in the formulation of the IACC Class, and, in the ’92 Defense,
\nled the joint PACT\/Boeing appendage research project for all US Syndicates.<\/p>\n
An active rower and sailor, with extensive dinghy, IOR, IMS and 5.5 & 12
\nMeter experience, Britt was alternate helmsman in the Olympics for the 5.5
\nMeter and Dragon Classes. He has crewed, or skippered, in major events
\nincluding the America’s Cup Trials, One Ton Cup, Admiral’s Cup, 5.5 Meter
\nWorlds, and offshore in the Bermuda, Fastnet, Middle Sea, and SORC Races.
\nFor a change of pace, he rows competitively.<\/p>\n
The Barnegat Bay Sailing Hall of Fame inducted Britt on October 6, 2012 as
\none of eight inductees who have distinguished themselves in the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Our paths crossed many times over the years. The obvious omission here is the disastrous design of the 12 meter “Mariner”. The second aluminum 12 meter ever built. I was working at Minneford’s lofting and building “Courageous”. A group of us drove in the evenings to Stevens Institute to take a course instructed by Peter … Continue reading BRITT CHANCE 1940-2012<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1475],"tags":[2605],"class_list":["post-4537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-britt-chance","tag-britt-chance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4537"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4548,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4537\/revisions\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenlirakis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}