A sturdy sailing motorsailer Issue 96 : May/Jun 2014 Capital Yachts, the builder of the Gulf 32, was formed in 1971 by Jon Williams and Bill Smith when they bought the tooling for the Newport line of ...
Performance in Starck-ly beautiful French style Issue 97 : Jul/Aug 2014 A problem many inland sailors face is that they eventually get tired of sailing the same water. Two years ago, that is what poss...
A sweet sailer with an innovative interior Issue 98: Sept/Oct 2014 Dave and Aileen Gruendel are one of those rare and fortunate couples that does everything together. They met in graduate school at th...
A rare cat ketch and uncommonly good coastal cruiser Issue 97 : Jul/Aug 2014 Tom Curley pulled into the marina parking lot on his Victory motorcycle. We stood there admiring this eccentric machine, it...
. . . and two high-production contemporaries Issue 99 : Nov/Dec 2014 The Hunter 35.5 was one of the many boats built by Hunter whose design credit reads “Warren Luhrs and the Hunter Design Team.” Over...
She is loved for her comfort and speed Issue 99 : Nov/Dec 2014 She’s one of the sweetest, cleanest boats in the marina, and two of the best people own her. Bob and Barbara Pulyer’s 1989 Hunter 35.5 Le...
. . . and a pair of pocket trailerables Issue 99 : Nov/Dec 2014 Jim Luce, a good friend from the Nyack Boat Club, once described cruising in small boats as camping but with the added risk of drowning!...
Waltzing with the same partner for 40 years Issue 99 : Nov/Dec 2014 At the request of one of our faithful readers who has owned a Matilda 20 sloop since he bought one new in 1975, we decided to explor...
The boat Bill Shaw designed for himself Issue 101 : Mar/Apr 2015 When 33-year-old Don Sailors initially purchased Schurr Thing, 1976 Pearson 365 hull #38, he may have realized he was buying a proven a...
A micro-cruiser with four decades of fans Issue 101 : Mar/Apr 2015 Wayne Egleston is a lifelong resident of Island County, Washington, and was a power-boater until 2008, when he spotted a sad-looking ...
A big trailerable boat with a lifting keel Issue 100: Jan/Feb 2015 Reviewing the 1980 C&C Mega 30 owned by Good Old Boat founders Karen Larson and Jerry Powlas is something of a daunting project. ...
. . . meets two canoe-stern cousins Issue 100: Jan/Feb 2015 The Tom Hale-designed Vineyard Vixen 34 is a pretty little canoe-stern yacht much in the style of Bill Crealocks’ Pacific Seacraft 34 and Th...
. . . alongside two contemporary keel/centerboarders Issue 101 : Mar/Apr 2015 Boats designed in the late 1960s and very early 1970s embody the later developments of the CCA Rule before the introductio...
. . . has acquired heirloom status Issue 101 : Mar/Apr 2015 Rare is the man or woman who buys a boat and keeps it for a lifetime, handing the revered craft down to children like a family heirloom. Som...
A double-ender that looks and handles like a classic Issue 100: Jan/Feb 2015 Steve Capp had never seen, nor heard of, a Vineyard Vixen. And why would he? He and his wife, Carol, started sailing in 198...
A robust trailerable with innovative features Issue 102 : May/Jun 2015 Rex Henthorn got the sailing bug in 1980 when he bought a summer home on Lake Freeman, just north of Lafayette, Indiana. The home...
A handsome design that excels as a cruiser and club racer Issue 102 : May/Jun 2015 Boats designed by Bruce King for Ericson Yachts share a strong family resemblance, from the smallest of the line, the...
An ever-popular daysailer approaches 50 Issue 103 : Jul/Aug 2015 Let’s face it, some boats just tug at a sailor’s heartstrings at first glance. Call it love at first sight if you will, but some design...
A twin-keeler from across “the Pond” Issue 108: May/June 2016 First we’ll address the elephant in the room: the wild paint job is the result of work done by William Barnhart of Mesa, Arizona, for an I...
Two Chris-Craft 35s illustrate the designer’s dilemma Issue 103 : Jul/Aug 2015 When doing design comparisons for our feature boat articles, it’s important to find the proper variation of the model in ...
. . . and center-cockpit contemporaries Issue 103 : Jul/Aug 2015 The center-cockpit layout creates an ideal accommodation plan for cruising, especially for those cruising with another couple or kids. ...
A pedigreed early center-cockpit design Issue 103 : Jul/Aug 2015 Calypso music played in my head as I photographed Yellowbird, a 1972 banana-colored Chris-Craft Sail Yacht 35. Abeam of the photo boat,...
A thoroughbred at home on rivers, lakes, and oceans Issue 104 : Sept/Oct 2015 Phil Bills began sailing in 1960 when he was 15. He grew up in Delaware, Ohio, north of Columbus, and sailed the Douglass ...
A quick trailerable that does the small things right Issue 104 : Sept/Oct 2015 R K. “Kim” Hogan, a retired airline captain, and his wife, Karen, have been sailing their 1996 Precision 23, Willow, on t...
Fun and utility in a lightweight package Issue 105 : Nov/Dec 2015 When we were looking for a MacGregor 26D to review, we found one nearby — a 1989 model that Allen and Ruth Penticoff bought new and na...
. . . and partners from the era of split rigs Issue 105 : Nov/Dec 2015 The Bowman 46 was designed originally with a deep-draft fixed keel and the majority of the boats built from that tooling retained...
A cat-rigged unballasted sharpie for gunkholing Issue 106 : Jan/Feb 2016 John and Julie Mohr of Seymour, Indiana, own a 1992 Bay Hen 21 named Orca. John, a cartographer, was looking for a simple boat ...
An oceangoing cruiser by C&C and Ontario Yachts Issue 106 : Jan/Feb 2016 Gregg and Jean Tranter may list Calgary, Alberta, as their home, but they have spent every summer aboard grasal, a 1981 Ont...
. . . and two very different daysailers Issue 107 : Mar/Apr 2016 Carl Alberg established his reputation as a designer with the Pearson Triton in 1958, the same year he designed the Sea Sprite 23. He u...
Restored to order, she’s a daysailing delight Issue 107 : Mar/Apr 2016 “Bill, you really ought to come over to Yacht Works this morning. There’s a sleek, small boat being rigged right now and her owne...
