A Championship Skipper

In the North American sailing champion- ships at Seattle last month Emil (Bus) Mosbacher Jr. '43 was one of eight finalists from various sections of the United States and Canada, and although he finished third in the eight-race series, he is still looked upon as a champ by the Long Island (N. Y.) Yachting Association which he represented.

With his sleek, blue-hulled International Class Susan, Mosbacher for some years has dominated the Sound races in that class. At Seattle he was sailing a 261/2 foot Blanchard Senior, a class he had never seen before. He got to the Mallory Cup finals on Lake Washington by winning the Hipkins Trophy Races in Manhasset Bay, L. I., and then taking four straight races in the Area Two semi-finals at Niantic, Conn., in August. Earlier in the summer, at Larchmont Race Week, he was voted the Anne Kathleen Cullen Trophy as the outstanding performer among 378 skippers. As winner in the International Class, he also captured the Marx Trophy for the sixth straight year, thus retiring the bowl for the second time. He has won the International Class Yacht Racing Association championship four times in the last six years.

Mosbacher, who is commodore of the Beach Point Yacht Club, Mamaroneck, started sailing before he went to kindergarten. He was Long Island Sound Midget Champion, and later was intercollegiate title-holder while at Dartmouth, where he was vice-commodore of the yacht club. He has owned the Susan since 1937, when the International Class was created in Norway.

One reason for Mosbacher's success as a skipper is the attention he pays to the minutest details aboard his yacht. Another, he likes to point out, is Larry Marx '36, chief member of his racing crew and a friend since childhood. Marx, who is race chairman at Beach Point, went to Seattle with Mosbacher last month to crew in the Mallory Cup races. Both are New York business men, Mosbacher in real estate and oil and Marx as a director of United Merchants and Manufacturers, Inc.

Emil "Bus" Mosbacher '43

His speedy International Class "Susan."