The Atlantic class was formed in 1929 for racing on Long Island Sound. Designed by W. Starling Burgess in the late 1920s and actively raced in the thirties and forties, the Atlantic in its first generation numbered 100 boats, built of mahogany over oak ribs. No new boats were built for over two decades, and there was speculation that the Atlantic's design plans had been lost when the German shipbuilding firm that had manufactured the boats was bombed in World War II. In 1953, however, the Atlantic class became one of the first classes to be built with a fiberglass hull, creating a second generation of boats to join what remained of the original wooden hundred. The class races primarily in the northeast U.S., with strong fleets in Connecticut at Cedar Point Yacht Club and Niantic Bay Yacht Club, in New York at Cold Spring Harbor, and in Maine at Blue Hill.