Red Jacket returns to the race course

Published on July 2nd, 2024

The famous Canadian racer has new owners and will be on the lakes this summer. Story by Wendy Mitman Clarke for SAIL magazine:


Red Jacket, the 40-footer that became the first Canadian boat to win the SORC and launched what would become C&C Yachts, will be back on the racecourse this summer under new ownership, after her future had become worryingly uncertain.

“In Canada there are two significant sailing vessels in my mind, the Bluenose, on our dime, and Red Jacket,” says Brian Post, who purchased the storied boat with his sailing buddy, John Salasny. He said it only took them a moment to know they would buy her to prevent her from being “disposed of or falling into hands that couldn’t care for her…I’m excited as heck to sail her.”

“Everybody thought it was an old 1966 racing boat that was falling apart. But we took a quick gander, we were only on the boat a minute, two minutes, and there was nothing wrong with it,” Salasny says. “So we took a shot at it, right?”

Only one other bidder made an offer, he says, and they would have moved the boat out of Canada. “That boat shouldn’t be leaving Lake Ontario. That was part of our proposal, that it would sail on Lake Ontario, and we would show it.” – Full report

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