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Ruby, still sailing after all these years
About 28 years ago Bruce Kirby, Canadian boat designer, and Canadian boat builder, Ian Bruce, started selling the Laser. The Laser has become world renowned by securing the coveted "single handed dinghy" Olympic status. Beyond world recognition the popularity of this boat is based on its pure simplicity, clean design, and speed.

The Canoe Lake cottagers, in Algonquin Park Ontario, were early and eager purchasers of these boats. My mother, an active sailor from youth, saw beauty and speed and bought hull number 1125 and named the blue hull Ruby (a ruby was used in the first-ever laser beam),an appropriate name as Ruby has won many races.

Ruby still races today. She is heavy and old and would not give the new Olympic boats a run, but every year at the end of August, polished and maintained, she makes her way out to the race course. Ruby and some 25 of her colleagues have shaped the end of summer for 3 generations of cottagers. These little sailboats have not only changed the world of sailing, but they changed cottage life on Canoe Lake.

Sadly, the Laser is no longer built in Canada. The price of a new American-built Laser is 10 times what we bought dear Ruby for in 1971, so I doubt we will ever buy a replacement, and this keeps a smile on Ruby's Sail, as she gets ready for the next generation of kids comming to the August 2000 regatta.

Thank you Ian and Bruce for a great 28 years.

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