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NATIONAL SQUIB CLASS
While the UK fleets expanded, interest began to spread abroad. A couple of Squibs went to Tortola as day charter boats and a fleet grew there. Other groups grew in South Africa, Greece, Germany and Australia. Many of these boats were either club owned, operated on charter or were used by sailing schools. By 1974 numbers had approached the 400 mark, despite growing economic gloom. That November an event called the Squib Symposium was dreamed up by Simon Fraser, and the country's leading yachting journalists came to Burnham on Crouch to race Squibs against one another. The resulting press comment further enhanced the Squib's reputation as did the Design Centre's decision to put the Squib on its index of selected designs.
Until his death in 1993 Oliver Lee was the sole licenced builder of Squibs. The licence lapsed on his death and in 1994 it was granted to Barker Brewer Boats Ltd who relinquished it in 1996 after having built 12 Squibs. In 1997 the licence was granted to Parker Sailboats, whose first Squib, No. 783, was sailed to great acclaim in the 1997 Inland Championship. Specifications
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