The Canadian Sailing Hall of Fame, Sail Canada and the Marine Museum of the Great Lakes at Kingston announced that Erich Bruckmann is one of the 12 people inducted into the Canadian Sailing Hall of Fame on Oct. 15.  Erich Bruckmann, who passed in 2011, was best known for building the 40-foot racing sloop Red Jacket in his manufacturing facility in Oakville, Ontario. Red Jacket was the first Canadian sailboat to win the South Ocean Racing Conference in 1968.  Bruckmann constructed the sloop using a balsam core, a revolutionary technique.

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