Pretty good obit. Minor mistatement about FPI. My dad founded FPI. Bill had very little to with it. Bill joined FPI a year or so after it was founded. Pink and I had nothing to do with it. I was only 16 and Pink still lived in New York State. Bill worked for Commercial Solvent out of Chicgo where he and Lynn lived for about after a year after their marriage. My Dad convinced him to come work for him. Bill may have had something to do with putting my Dad in contact with the former owner of FPI.  However, all that is not really important because once Bill joined FPI he made a huge contribution in growing the company and played a leadership role as my Dad got older. As for his early Star sailing exploits he reallly got serious about it at Cuba Lake outside of Olean NY. after graduating from Colorado A and M. He refurbished an old wooden hull star from the 1930s and raced it for several years until he bought an updated one after he moved to Colorado. Immediately after the war he did some sailboat racing in Barnniget Bay near Bayhead NJ. But that did not involve Star boats. I remember one night race in which he as a skipper of an ocean going two masted boat. His car in those days was a model A Ford which he painted blue to attract the girls. We used go on joy rides together in the summer at the beach. That was a lot of fun for a 6 – 7 year old kid. In those days he was a terrific swimmer and often went swimming with the local life guards. When he was not Star racing on Cuba Lake in the summer he was ice boating in the winter. He built his own ice boat and often took his scared little brother on fast runs down the lake. Of course in the winter he skiied at local ski areas in the Allegany Mountains of Western NY and PA.