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Originally Posted by whitehse
Sounds like you are speaking of Buddy Melges. I live not far from him in Southern Wisconsin and go past the small "factory" on occasion in a VERY small town here. It is so small the post office used to be someone's front porch.
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Yes, Buddy Melges, Bill Bentsen and Bill Allen, gold medalists in the soling class (3 man keelboat) were members of the Lake Geneva Yacht Club, though Melges was the only one from Wisconsin. Melges was born in Elkhorn and lived in Zelda. Allen was from Minneapolis and Bentsen from Chicago. Bentsen graduated undergrad from the same school as my wife, Denison in Ohio.