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    Marianne Scott

    Godspeed, Mark Gearhart’s handsome Bristol Channel Cutter designed by Lyle Hess, dries her sails after a run down Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis, Maryland, to Reedville, Virginia, at right. Lyle Hess, facing page, inspects the ribs of Lin and Larry Pardey’s Taleisin, 1983.
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    Homage to Lyle Hess

    His designs were few but all became timeless classics Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 Traditional. Classic. Timeless. Character boats. Boats from the heart. These are just some of the terms the owners of boat...

    Marianne Scott
    September 8, 2026
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    Bill Lee by a Santa Cruz 52 (co-designed by Bob Smith) near his office in Santa Cruz Harbor.
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    Bill Lee, wizard of speed

    Reducing the black art of design to light weight and long waterline Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Bill Lee, who introduced ultralights into the sailboat race circuit in the 1970s, calls designing racing sai...

    Marianne Scott
    September 4, 2026
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    Bluewater Spencer

    A baby-blue Mark II Spencer 35 heads for the horizon Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 In 2002, Jim Kellam won the Singlehanded Transpac Race in his refurbished Spencer 35 Mk II. The Canadian from Vancouver wo...

    Marianne Scott
    September 3, 2026
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    Hal and Margaret on Whisper in Sausalito in 1970
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    Hal & Margaret Roth

    Meet the cruising couple who inspired a generation of dreamers Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 If it’s true that “marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes,” as Scottish novelist and poet...

    Marianne Scott
    August 28, 2026
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    Murray Davis in 1957, facing page; Murray with soon-to-become Barbara Davis skiing that winter, at right.
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    Murray Davis, entrepreneur

    How a gutsy sailor founded a well-known magazine Issue 45 : Nov/Dec 2005 “The safe enjoyment of cruising under sail.” That phrase, which concluded the first editorial in the first issue of Cruising Wo...

    Marianne Scott
    August 26, 2026
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