1948 Olympic Firefly wins Concours d'Elegance at the RYA Dinghy and Watersports Show

© Paul Wyeth / RYA Winning at last! - How did the Firefly class come to be at the 1948 Olympics in the first place?
We'll get into detail on Firefly 503, Jacaranda, later on but maybe an even bigger story is how the Firefly Class came to be at the Olympics in the first place. To put things into perspective we first have to go back even further to the early 1930s.