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Robert E. Derecktor

Born: 12 September 1921 Died: 10 October 2001

As a young boy Bob was in love with the sea. He would build wooden models and with sails made by his mother, they would go to Long Island Sound and watch his little boats sail away.

1947...It was an exciting time in America. The Second World War was over, and the country was eager to move on to the benefits of peacetime. Bob Derecktor, newly home from the Pacific, was as well. For him, that meant only one thing: building boats. And so, finding a spot right on the old Boston Post Road and Mamaroneck Harbor, he set to work. And the rest, as they say....

The yard in Mamaroneck New York would go on to build hundreds of boats for both private and Government agencies including several Americas Cup sail boats.