She’s a 20-foot trailersailer with a large cockpit and a lot of names Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 Back in the 1930s, a couple of teenage brothers enjoyed being out on Lake Wawasee, located near their home...
A comparison of the Watkins 29 with three contemporaries Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 For comparison I tried to choose boats from a reasonably similar era with a reasonably similar purpose: that is to say,...
A boat specially suited to Florida’s shallow waters Issue 36 : May/Jun 2004 Frank Fitzhenry, of Clearwater, Florida, owns a sailboat on the west coast of Florida that is an official U.S. Coast Guard O...
She’s a trailerable, characterful, shallow-draft yawl with classic features Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 The old saying that “if it looks right, it probably is right” applies to the Nimble 24. This i...
Nearly 20 years in production, and this centerboard cruiser is still going strong Issue 37 : Jul/Aug 2004 Given the choice, I’d rather test boats when the sun is shining, the temperature is in t...
She’s capable of cruising anywhere in the world in comfort Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 With this issue we have three yachts that are about as alike as peas in a pod — or peapods in Maine, if you prefer. ...
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...
Corsair Marine’s little three-huller is fast and fun Issue 38 : Sept/Oct 2004 Lest we find ourselves engaged in one of those downward-spiraling debates about the characteristics that define a good old...
A MacGregor trailersailer that has earned Hall of Fame status Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 In 1967, as a final requirement for earning his MBA at Stanford Business School, Roger MacGregor wrote his thesis ...
This grand old dame will always be someone’s sweetheart Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 It might not have been love at first sight but it was close. Marcelo Gentenetta, a veterinarian, was looking at a Pearso...
A third-generation performance cruiser Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 AT THE 1959 NEW YORK BOAT SHOW, CLINT PEARSON AND his younger cousin, Everett, introduced their first sailboat, the Carl Alberg-designed,...
Popular designer Bill Crealock drew this one for himself Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 I was in my early teens when I first fell in love. She was certainly pretty and beautifully shaped. And she was dark bl...
This was the boat they chose to “safely take them farther” Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 Jon Church spent much of his professional career as a geologist on oil rigs off the coasts of Sweden and Norway. For ...
Never was there a tender so beautiful, faithful, and worthy of a man’s love Issue 39 : Nov/Dec 2004 I began construction of my first cruising sailboat, Fishers Hornpipe, in 1974, in Half Moon Bay, Cal...
A designer compares four sturdy, solidly performing cruising yachts Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 The four yachts under discussion here cover a 14-year design period, from the 1970 Endeavour to the 1984 Cre...
Combining character with space and elegant comfort Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 We first saw Zephyr in Sapodilla Bay in the Turks and Caicos, noting her size more than her appearance. My wife, Olga, and I ...
A handsome and stoutly built offering from Canada Issue 40 : Jan/Feb 2005 The Canadian Sailcraft 36 is one of the best-built boats I have yet sailed. That it is underappreciated is evidenced by the fa...
The patented hull gives this boat “space appeal” Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 Reinell Boat Works of Marysville, Washington, specialized in fine lapstrake and carvel-planked fishing and pleasure boats from ...
A designer’s view of Trina and her offspring Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 BILL SHAW’S SWEET LITTLE TRINA HAS LONG BEEN ONE OF MY favorite small yacht designs. From her yawl rig to her keel/centerboard hull...
A whole pod of Dolphins continues to delight Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 It was the mid-1950s. Enter Bill Shaw, the man who later designed a great many of Pearson Yachts’ fi nest and was at that fi rm’s h...
Comparing a classic bluewater cruiser with three rivals Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 The Bob Perry-designed Tayana 37 has long been considered one of the classic bluewater cruisers in her size range, as ha...
A class that owes much to an energetic owners’ group Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 The Tayana Owners’ Group (TOG) is a diverse, energetic, and passionate group of sailors of Tayana, CT, and Vancouver sailbo...
A classic performance cruiser, with the emphasis on performance Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 The year was 1961 when George Cuthbertson, a mechanical engineer, and George Cassian, an aircraft designer, got ...
A trailerable pocket cruiser from a legendary designer Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 In the late 1960s, we owned one of the first Rhodes 22 sailboats manufactured by General Boats Corporation. We sailed our...
A fairly rare coastal cruiser with an intriguing layout Issue 42 : May/Jun 2005 A Chinese immigrant by the name of Ti Ouyang is the man responsible for the creation and success of Ouyang Boat Works of...
A designer compares four classic coastal cruisers Issue 43 : Jul/Aug 2005 The Bristol 29.9 and three similar yachts examined here were designed during the 1970s as coastal cruisers and club racers. I ...
Ongoing makeover for a Halsey Herreshoff racer/cruiser Issue 43 : Jul/Aug 2005 Memory fails. Mike and Nancy Serozi can remember the highlights of their life together, of course. There were two sons, R...
Beautifully restored daysailer takes to salt water Issue 43 : Jul/Aug 2005 The drive from my home in Wales across old Somerset and Dorset had taken me through an England as one imagines it: my trusty ...
A many-faceted boat known by many names Issue 44: Sept/Oct 2005 EVER HAVE ONE OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS during which you wonder if you and other participants are speaking the same language or discussing ...
A blend of functionality and traditional yacht design Issue 45 : Nov/Dec 2005 Nearly three decades ago, in a warehouse near the Miami, Florida, airport, Nicholas Hake began his boatbuilding business. ...
