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Performance Sailcraft company dealer network, but rather through direct representatives who owned and sailed Laser 28s and organized events for them.
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Singlehanded Sailing Society’s
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designed the sails, as he had done for the Laser dinghy.
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829:"History of the Laser 28"
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