7 Folders:

1. Correspondence, telegrams and reports concerning admission of the 2 man catamaran class to 1976 Olympic games. A series of telegrams with both good wishes for and congratulations of the 1961 inaugural Little America's Cup.
2. Reports of the International Yacht Racing Union, 1976
3. Extract of the Minutes from Canvey Island Urban District Council, congratulating John Fiske on his victory in the 1961 Little America's Cup, 1961.
4. Correspondence International Yacht Racing Union (1976), Programme for the Chase Sailing Club, March 1962, Judging Manual for North American Yacht Racing Union, 1974.
5. Map, Instructions and draft Regulations, Sailing directions and Olympic Measurement Committee correspondence concerning the course for the Olympic two man catamaran class, 1976.
6. Correspondence with the US Yacht Racing Union, International Racing Commitee and International Yacht Racing Union, concerning observed catamaran trials for 1976 Olympics, held at San Pedro, California, 1975 -1976.
7. Plastic Carrier bag souvenir of 1976 Montreal Olympics
See further uncatalogued Fiske papers in MSS/79/014

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 catamaran race at West Mersea. He won the national title in 1956. In a new catamanran 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. Fiske won four races to one and Britain held the 'Little America's cup' against Australian and American challenges for the next 9 years. Fiske went on to win the British championship in 1963 in the BOADICEA and following more successes, ill health obliged him to involve himself more in the adminsitrative aspects of yachting and he was instrumental in two man catamarans gaining Olympic status in 1976. Fiske died in 1976.