5 folders:

1. Correspondence, newsletters of various yacht clubs in Australia and North America and Minutes of the Chapman Sands Sailing Club, concerning the ‘Little Americas Cup’ Yacht races, 1959 to 1966.
2. Photographs and press cuttings of the International Catamaran Trophy and other races, 1961-1962
3. Photographs of competing catamarans, Little America's cup, 1962, Sydney Flying Sqaudron championships, 1932.
4. Fisk's Olympic Pass as Yachting Jury Mmber, 1976 (Canada), a copy of 'This Essex' Magazine (December 1973) including an article 'John Fisk- yachtsman extraordinary'.
5. Photographs of Fiske, MacAlpine-Downie, BODY & SOUL, THAI IV, HELLCAT & BOADICEA. Telegram from Prince Philip (Duke of Edinburgh), following Fiske's death in 1976, Reports of the Estuary Class Owner's Association, 1964-66 and press cuttings, 1957-60.
See further uncatalogued Fiske papers under MSS/83/147.

Administrative / biographical background
John Fisk joined the Essex Yacht Club as a cadet member shortly after the war. After National Service in the Navy he began competing with catamarans, finishing runner up in the first national catamaran race, held at West Mersea. He won the national title in 1956. In a new catamaran, THAI designed by young Scottish designer, Rod MacAlpine-Downie, Fisk was runner up in the Royal Yachting Association race at West-Cliff-on-Sea in in 1958. In THAI MKIV he won in 1959. Following interest in the US, an Anglo American match race was organised for 1961. Fisk, by now the Chairman of the Chapman Sands Sailing Club of Canvey Island, Essex, represented the club in a new MacAlpine-Downie designed catamaran HELLCAT and was shipped over to Long Island, New York in the Cunard liner, MAURITANIA. Fisk won four races to one. Britain held the 'Little America's cup' against Australian and American challenges for the next 9 years. Fisk went on to win the British championship in 1963 in the BOADICEA but following more successes, ill health obliged him to involve himself more in the adminsitrative aspects of yachting. He was instrumental in ensuring that two man catamaran racing gained Olympic status in 1976. Fisk died in 1976.