It’s the summer of 1997. The camera pans across a lonely stretch of America’s vast interstate highway system somewhere on the vast landscape of Minnesota or Wisconsin. It zooms in on a late-model SUV towing a trailer with a curious object stealthily wrapped in canvas. Above the relentless drone of eight Michelin radials spinning across 12 inches of reinforced concrete we begin to make out the conversation. “If those guys could get eighty boats at their regatta, it’ll be a snap for us to get 100 boats on Mendota...” In the fading daylight, the camera pans to the front seat where we discover this pair of smart talking sailors, Lon Schoor and Hugh Sugar. They didn’t know it then but they were on their way to a wondrous destination. Not a dimension of time or of mind but a fabulous world of fiberglass, water and Dacron. Look, there’s a signpost up ahead! Your next stop-- Lake Mendota and the largest one-design regatta in history... Theme music fades up....