Charley Morgan

Morgan was born in Chicago November 1929 and raised in Florida. Morgan built the yacht Brisote and completed a St. Petersburg, Florida to Havana, Cuba race with Bruce Bidwell. and took a job with Johnson Sails, located at the Jean Street Shipyard on the Hillsborough River. ==Racing==

In 1957, Morgan, along with Charlie Hunt, designed and built Brisote, a 31-foot plywood yawl. After successfully appealing disqualification due to a lack of engine, he entered the Havana race and took second in ''Brisote's division. In 1960 Jack Powell commissioned Morgan to build the 40 foot centerboard fiberglass yawl Paper Tiger. The "famously successful" Paper Tiger'' won the SORC Southern Ocean Racing Conference in 1961 and 1962. ==Morgan Yachts==

Unable to find a builder to manufacture the Tiger Cub, a smaller version of Paper Tiger, Morgan founded the Morgan Yacht Corporation St. Petersburg, Florida, 1965 after graduating high school and starting his own sail company. Morgan's involvement in the company ended in 1972. Ownership of Morgan Yacht was sold to Beatrice Foods in 1968, providing funds for Morgan to design and build the wooden 12-meter yacht Heritage to compete for selection as defender of the America's Cup. Morgan acted as skipper during the defender selection trials but lost to Intrepid. After Morgan left the company was passed from one corporate entity to another, until it came into the hands of Catalina Yachts in 1984. Catalina continued manufacturing a few models, including the Out Island 41, before the Morgan name was retired. ==Later life==

Morgan left Morgan Yachts in 1972. Morgan found Heritage Yacht Corporation in 1975, producing trawlers and sailing yachts. The company was forced into bankruptcy and ownership transferred to Catalina Yachts. and Morgan began working for Chris-Craft, doing design work on their trawler line. ==Designs==

• Columbia 40 • Morgan 22 • Morgan 24/25 • Morgan 34 • Morgan Out Island 41 • Morgan 41 aka M41 • Morgan 42 aka M42-1 • Morgan 42 aka M42-2 ==References==