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Jim DeWitt Memorial
2023 El Toro North American Championships |
About Those Course Names
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Spreaders: During the late 1980s Jim DeWitt built an El Toro mast with spreaders (jumper stays) and advocated for everyone to use this new innovation.
Mallory Cup: DeWitt was the first winner of this US Sailing Championship from the West Coast in 1963, with a crew including Jocelyn Nash and Jake VanHeeckeren. B24 Liberator: There’s an airplane at the bottom of Huntington Lake. It took off in December, 1943 from Hammer Field in Fresno, searching for another plane that had gone missing. Hydraulic problems caused the plane to attempt a ditch landing in the lake, where it broke in half on impact. Trapeze: Jim DeWitt reportedly tried this on his El Toro. DeWitt Dinghy: Pioneering rotationally-molded dinghy roughly based on an El Toro |
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Lake Merritt: A small, urban lake in Oakland, California where DeWitt started his sailing career.
Mono: Easterly wind at Huntington Lake. Sailors take warning!
Flower Pot: An obscure DeWitt-designed dinghy
Mono: Easterly wind at Huntington Lake. Sailors take warning!
Flower Pot: An obscure DeWitt-designed dinghy