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    Tom Young

    a lifelong sailor, is a design-builder. When he's not restoring old homes on the coast of Maine, Tom and his family - wife, Mary Anne, now-adult children Mary Jane and Thomas, and a couple of dogs - sail the world class coast of Maine and New England every season. Tom cares for their 1961 Alden Challenger, Christmas, with a passion.

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    Issue 125: March/April 2019 Bio protection for propellers Before our June launch this year, after cleaning the prop thoroughly I coated it with PYI’s Velox Plus propeller antifouling paint. Everything...

    Tom Young
    January 8, 2026
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    Clean Prop for Christmas – Propspeed

    We launched Christmas the first week of June 2019 and hauled her out late October 2019. This is our typical five-month sailing season on the coast of Maine. Before launch, I prepped the prop (which wa...

    Tom Young
    May 12, 2020
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    A New Classic DC Distribution Panel

    An electrical update for the 21st century preserves the 1960s aesthetics. Dog-eared and dated, the 12-volt DC switch panel on our 1961 Alden Challenger, Christmas, was original. I had planned to repla...

    Tom Young
    January 1, 2019
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