In 1935, the legendary yachtsman Cornelius Shields of Larchmont, New York, traveled to Bermuda to race in the AMORITA Cup-a team-racing event between Bermudian and Long Island Sound sailors. For about a decade, that trophy was contested in two nearly identical one-designs sharing the same course: The C.D. Mower-designed Sound Interclubs (see WB No. 242) and the W. Starling Burgess-designed Bermuda One-Designs. Shields, who had been instrumental in the development of the Sound Interclubs and owned one of them, was often heard to say that if he were going to be beaten on the water, he wanted it to be by a better sailor, not by a designer. He was a true believer in the concept of identical boats on the race course-or "one-designs."
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