David Chapin is an American sailor, 3 time World Champion in the Sunfish and Snipe classes, gold medalist at the Pan American Games, and winner of multiple North American and United States Championships in Sunfish, Snipe, Laser, 470 and Soling classes.

[1] He was U.S. Singlehanded Champion in 1977, sailed in Laser.

In 1987 he won the gold medal at the Pan American Games.

[13] He is of English ancestry being a direct descendant of Deacon Samuel Chapin.

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