The Six Metre – 100 Years of Racing has been produced by Pekka Barck and Tim Street in the nine months since January 2007. Prior to this, our enthusiastic contributors world wide provided us with much information, to all of whom we owe our deep gratitude. This book is the result of our numerous sleepless nights. The most experienced contributor was Olin Stephens, now 99 years old. Others who have contributed include: Claes Ahlin, Henrik Andersin, Franco Belloni, Richard Bond, Basil Carmody, Matt Cockburn, Gabor Csernussi, Dr. Segismundo Cortes, Dariusz Dziwura, Chris ennals, Jack Gale, Philippe Goetz, Torben Schmidt-Grael, Pierre Gutelle, Juliane Hempel, Bernard Haissly, Ian Howlett, Luigi Lang, Eero Lehtinen, Tapio Lehtinen, Kimball Livingston, Morten Lindvik, Paul Longridge, Kimo Mackey, Chris Museler, Hans J. Oen, Stefan O’reilly Hyland, Toby Rodes, Dr. Björn Storsberg and Eldon Trimingham III.
The book is enlivened by numerous anecdotes and includes hundreds of pictures by Patricia Lascabannes from France, Beken & Sons and Kathy Mansfield from the UK, Abel from Norway, Bertil Norberg from Sweden, Edwin Lewick from USA, Katrin Storsberg from Germany, Gilles Favez from Switzerland, Ari Thiel and Hannu Bask from Finland together with many other collections and private photographs, for all of which our grateful thanks. |
