Comparing three light-displacement cruiser/racers Issue 73 : Jul/Aug 2010 I would hardly call any one of these three beamy designs a good old boat, since two of them are still in production today and ...
They’ve stuck together through thick and thin Issue 73 : Jul/Aug 2010 Durkee Richards found the girl of his dreams at age 18 and became a one-woman man. He and Mary Jeanne hit all the expected stops a...
A Euro-style racer with few concessions to cruising Issue 73 : Jul/Aug 2010 When viewed from dockside, our review boat, Amoretto, a 30-foot Jeanneau Arcadia, appeared to be a solidly built, no-nonsens...
A low-priced club racer and shoal-water cruiser Issue 74 : Sept/Oct 2010 Needing a break from winter, my wife and I flew to St. Petersburg, Florida, to participate in the inaugural Good Old Boat Regat...
A performance cruiser for the coast and open ocean Issue 74 : Sept/Oct 2010 Duane and Barbara Tack have owned Sequester, a 1979 Esprit 37, since 1981. I first learned of Duane and Barbara when I disco...
Shoal draft defines the boundaries for this spacious coastal cruiser Issue 75 : Nov/Dec 2010 J. Robert (Bob) Seidelmann was recognized as a champion one-design sailor and won top honors in Lightnings,...
The biggest little cruiser ever Issue 75 : Nov/Dec 2010 Many of us who dream of cruising spend many years working our way up to a dream boat that we think will accommodate our desires, only to find th...
. . . against two fellow Californians Issue 75 : Nov/Dec 2010 The Cal 2-30 is a descendant of Bill Lapworth’s famous Cal 40 and shares some of the characteristics that made her bigger sister the winne...
Standout boats from outstanding designers Issue 76 : Jan/Feb 2011 The Tartan 34C is a very handsome design by Olin Stephens, one of the most gifted designers of the past century. In finding yachts to ...
An object of doubtless devotion, Sin Sal sparkles Issue 76 : Jan/Feb 2011 When he suggested that we feature the Tartan 34C owned by Max Guzman and Donna Delahanty, Tom Wells described this boat as “no...
A trailerable pocket cruiser with standing headroom Issue 76 : Jan/Feb 2011 Richard Valdes founded Columbia Yachts in 1958. Under his presidency, the company became the world’s largest manufacturer of...
All-season sailing in the Pacific Northwest Issue 76 : Jan/Feb 2011 On a cold and windy day in early March, I climbed aboard the Rawson 30, Alcyone (Al-sy-uh-nee), and met her owner, Devon Blankenship...
. . . against its cruising contemporaries Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 The long waterlines, moderate draft, husky displacement, and modest sail area of both the Mariner 36 and Pearson 36 are a solid indica...
A shipshape Halsey Herreshoff cruiser Issue 77 : Mar/Apr 2011 On Rathbun Lake in Iowa, a single lightning strike in 2007 severely damaged a Bristol 29.9. She was declared a total loss, but that didn’t...
A quick and accommodating Gary Mull design Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 When David “Swede” and Marcia Samuelson sold their San Juan 28 in 1987, they left 14 years of sailing behind and began traveling on m...
. . . with a duo of double-ended classics Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 Because the Corbin 39 has some rather unusual features for a production yacht, it was easy to select two boats for comparison. Very fe...
A stylish and well-built cruiser/racer Issue 78 : May/Jun 2011 I stood at the top of the marine ramp in Edmonds, Washington, looking down at Greg Pearson’s S2 9.2A, Blast. My first impression was of a...
A well-built, IOR-inspired racer/cruiser Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 As with many boat companies, the Clark Boat Co., maker of San Juan sailboats, evolved from humble beginnings. It all began with Robert ...
An example of innovative French style Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 French naval architect Michel Dufour began designing yachts in the 1960s. Perhaps his best-known design is the elegant Arpège (1966), a 30...
Against fellow cruisers with clipper bows Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 This is an unusual group as clipper-bowed small boats have been fairly rare in mass production. Aesthetically, I can see the problem, ...
Sunshine lights up two ladies’ lives Issue 79: July/Aug 2011 When Joan “Jo” Lyon started to consider what she would do for pleasure when she finished working on her Ph.D., she looked at two possibilit...
A swift, sweet, and well-mannered all-rounder Issue 80 : Sept/Oct 2011 Dave Gow’s Ranger 26, Bandit, was built in 1973 and he’s owned her since 2006. Over the years, the boat’s several skippers have w...
. . . with two contemporary classic cruisers Issue 80 : Sept/Oct 2011 The Mistral 33, Ericson 35, and Seafarer 34 are classics by three top designers representing some of the best of a good era: the l...
A Swedish classic is the retirement plan he can live on Issue 80 : Sept/Oct 2011 When Stephen Thompson reached 50, he didn’t have a midlife crisis in the same way that most do. He didn’t buy a red Cor...
A popular and hospitable cruiser from Canada Issue 80 : Sept/Oct 2011 In the late 1960s, a Chinese immigrant by the name of Ti Ouyang founded Ouyang Boat Works in Whitby, Ontario. His first offering, ...
An Alberg 30 takes a racing sailor into his cruising years Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 When Dave Terrell began the refit of Scholarship II, his 1970 Alberg 30, his plan was to create a cruising sailboat t...
A versatile workboat expanded its range Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 Of all man’s artifacts, the one most like a living thing is a sailboat. This is especially so for the traditional working boat built by ...
. . . and a pair of CCA-style contemporaries Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 I was quite pleased to hear the Luders 36 was to be a feature boat as A.E. “Bill” Luders Jr. was my boss and mentor from 1960 to th...
. . . an ode to classic design Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 The morning light dawned on a quiet anchorage on the west coast of Florida. Not far from where our boat was anchored, one boat stood out proudly ...
An easily towed water-ballasted trailersailer Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 The Santana 2023 has a tall family tree dating to the early days of production fiberglass boats. W.D. “Bill” Schock, like many boa...
