In the Beginning...
Gam on Yachting
November, December 1961
To The Editor:
In Toronto a group of private citizens, impressed with the results shown by the brigantine, St Lawrence II, are forming a charitable organization to build a sail training vessel for Toronto.
St. Lawrence II has been used for training Sea Cadets and yacht club juniors out of Kingston for the past four years with great success. One can look at the brig and see that she is always shipshape and in Bristol fashion. More important one can talk to young men whose bearing or healthy attitude are a testament to the value of such a vessel in moulding the character of youth.
At present we are not asking for money or material but for information. We ask any reader who knows of a steel hull sixty to seventy-five feet in length to write us and give as many particulars as possible. Any questions or comments on the subjects of sail training are also welcome and will receive all our attention.
We thank you, particularly, for the brigantine feature stories recently published in GAM. This led to the possibility of a sail training ship in Toronto.
- Maurice Smith,
Dr. J. W. Rogers, - 73 Dowling Ave.,
Ste. 419, Medical Arts Bld - Toronto 3, Ont.
Toronto, Ont.