Thomas Fleming Day was a sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boats. He was the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race. The T. F. Day Trophy is named for him.

Biography

He was born in Somerset, England in March 1861, emigrated with his parents to the United States when he was a young boy, and was brought up on Long Island Sound. In 1890, he founded Rudder, "A monthly journal devoted to aquatic sport and trade," which he edited until April 1916. In 1911 he and Frederick B. Thurber

Frederick B. Thurber

Frederick B. Thurber was a sailing champion. The Frederick B. Thurber Invitational Trophy Race is named for him.-Biography:He and Theodore R. Goodwin and Thomas Fleming Day sailed the Atlantic Ocean in Seabird ....

 and Theodore R. Goodwin sailed the Atlantic Ocean

Atlantic Ocean

The Atlantic Ocean is the second-largest of the world's oceanic divisions. With a total area of about , it covers approximately 20% of the Earth's surface and about 26% of its water surface area...

 in Seabird (ship). In 1918 he designed the Islander that Harry Pidgeon

Harry Pidgeon

Harry Clifford Pidgeon , was an American sailor, a noted photographer, and was the second person to sail single-handedly around the world , 23 years after Joshua Slocum. Pidgeon was the first person to do this via the Panama Canal, and the first person to solo circumnavigate the world twice...

 built and sailed to become the second person to sail around the world.

He died on August 19, 1927 in Harlem, New York.