Buddy came to some Hobie events in the late 70's in St. Pete Beach when we drew hundreds of cats at the Don Cezar -the big pink Hotel. I can't recall if he actually raced there, does anybody remember? Buddy owned Cyrano then, a large yellow schooner with a carved Cyrano de Bergerac figurehead with turned wooden liferails on the quarterdeck: she was the committee boat for at least one regatta. I was told Cyrano had been previously owned by Wm. F. Buckley, who kept a grand piano in the salon during his "sailing voyage" partway across the Atlantic. (The heroic W.F. wrote a book about it, not mentioning that there had been a full crew aboard including captain).