He made it to his 100th birthday celebration, but Olin has now left us. He died on 13 September.
For an excellent obituary describing his life and his contributions to the sailing world (and even to the design of warships during WW II), see Bob Fisher in the Guardian.
One little snippet in this obituary was new to me: I always wondered where the name of the “Dorade” water-shedding ventilator came from. Olin invented it and used it on the 1931 Transatlantic and Fastnet winner Dorade , which he designed for his father.
