John Bryant

John Bryant served in the US Army from 1948-49 and was in the reserves through 1954. An avid sailor, he worked at Sun Ship, Luders, Johnson, and Sparkman & Stevens yacht yards, before returning to school and graduating from the Wharton School at the University of in 1960 with a degree in economics.

Bryant competed for the Mantoloking Yacht Club in New Jersey. He was on the crew of Rush IV that won the 1952 and 1955 Barnegat Bay Class E sloop championship. He won the Prince of Wales Bermuda race in 1956, also winning the Seawanhaka-Corinthian spring series that year. In 1956 Bryant won the Eastern Yacht Club midsummer series, the Boston Yacht Club race, and the Corinthian Yacht Club midsummer series, and was the overall winner of Marblehead Race Week.

Bryant worked as a draftsman at the time of his Olympic appearance. After graduating from Penn he worked with Bethlehem Steel, and then for Gardner Advertising, his father-in-law’s firm, and then for publications such as Relocation Boston, Coastal Cruising, and Northeast Sailing Life.

After retirement Bryant and his wife, Kit, lived aboard their boat, Kittiwake, and sailed each year from their home in Cohasset, Massachusetts to the Bahamas.