Olin Stephens interview

Olin Stephens - A 2008 Interview, with Rick Dominique for the Museum of Yachting
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I have been a fan of Mr Stephen's for decades. He was one if a kind. Thank you for posting.

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Jeez, you might have asked him if he ever considered designing a winged keel himself, as there were examples before Australia II, or whether he thought Australia used Dutch input from the tank test designers in the Netherlands, or who was his favorite skipper, or did he dislike Dennis Conner as much as virtually everyone else, or whether Ranger was his design or that of Starling Burgess, or what he thought of Constellation (my personal favorite) and her getting sunk by some meathead in the Mediterranean, whether he thought the NYYC did a good job defending the Cup for all those years . . . was this Olin's last interview? Instead, you blow the interview on the Shields Class -- I mean, who really needs to focus on the Shields class?