This business wasn’t planned — it just “grew and grew” Issue 45 : Nov/Dec 2005 Contrary to what the MBAs will tell you, it is possible to start a business without a business plan. Ask Gordon Torresen....
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...
Marine surveyor Tim Lackey makes a name for himself Issue 46 : Jan/Feb 2006 How puffed up would you feel if almost 3,000 people a month admired your handiwork? Tim Lackey’s boat projects get at least ...
A pioneering designer of many early production fiberglass sailboats Issue 46 : Jan/Feb 2006 Philip L. Rhodes (1895 -1974) was one of the most distinguished yacht designers of the past century. Indicat...
This respected company continues to move with the times Issue 48 : May/Jun 2006 Aa any marketing whiz will tell you, brand recognition is key to sales. And among sailboat builders, Pacific Seacraft ha...
Will Lesh builds wooden sailboats by the thousand Issue 49 : Jul/Aug 2006 To say Will Lesh is mad sailboats would be a gross understatement. Since childhood, his life has revolved around sailboats. He...
What’s a retired Snipe and Catalina 22 champ to do? Issue 52: Jan/Feb 2007 WHEN IT COMES TO SAILING, Beattie Purcell has done it all. He was a major figure in the early days of Catalina Yachts and has...
Space-age braids named after a biblical hero Issue 52: Jan/Feb 2007 A NYONE WHO EVER BRAIDED HAIR OR made lanyards in craft class knows the intricacy of the braiding process. Consider automating that ...
His special knack made boats faster than their ratings Issue 51 : Nov/Dec 2006 During the 1960s, William H. Tripp Jr. was one of America’s most successful yacht designers, drawing custom ocean racers ...
Builder of classic cruisers Issue 55 : Jul/Aug 2007 Just about any weekday morning after 10 you can find Allan Nye Scott behind his desk at the offices of Nye Boat Works in Foxboro, Ontario. Long past...
Capitalizing on the 1970’s trailersailer boom Issue 58 : Jan/Feb 2008 For nearly 25 years the Clark Boat Company built a line of small- to medium-sized racer/cruisers that introduced a lot of people, ...
The man who built the Sea Sprite and Southern Cross cruisers Issue 60 : May/Jun 2008 Anyone who sPends time looking at old sailboats soon figures out that boats with Clarke Ryder’s name on them are he...
Phil Rhodes inspired a generation of yacht designers, including Bob Perry Issue 76 : Jan/Feb 2011 It was about 50 years ago. I was probably 15 years old. I had started sailing and I was studying mecha...
Issue 83: March/April 2012 Brian Cleverly was born in Sydney, Australia, on October 17, 1936, and died on November 6, 2011, two days after his 75th birthday. Brian is known to many of our longtime sub...
Good old designs that still catch the eye Issue 81 : Nov/Dec 2011 When I was a kid in the early 1960s, there were quite a few yachting magazines. Each had its own character but they all had one thing ...
Matt Rutherford’s most excellent vertical circumnavigation Issue 86: Sept/Oct 2012 The last three weeks were the worst — cold air, boarding seas, and stubborn winds on the nose. He was in a beat-up bo...
Good Old Boat welcomes aboard a new contributing editor Issue 85 : Jul/Aug 2012 If you own a C&C yacht, Rob Mazza probably had a hand in its construction, design, or engineering. If you own a boat...
A blade maker and a good old boatbuilder create the Sage 17 Issue 87 : Nov/Dec 2012 As a brand-new design, the Sage 17 doesn’t exactly fit the standard description of a good old boat. And yet, since t...
To Charlie Husar, the Annapolis fleet is his flock Issue 88 : Jan/Feb 2013 Annapolis, Maryland, is home to many high-performance racing boats such as Farr 30s, J/105s, and J/70s. But you’ll also find ...
He founded Westerly Marine Construction and launched a thousand dreams Issue 96 : May/Jun 2014 Denys Rayner was born in the outskirts of London, England, in 1908. As a boy, he was smitten with boats, ...
The talent on Good Old Boat’s masthead Issue 109 : Jul/Aug 2016 Back in 1997, Jerry Powlas and I had no idea what we would be creating with this magazine. In nearly 20 years, a community has formed ar...
A young woman traces her avocation to infancy Issue 111: Nov/Dec 2016 I am a sailor. I always have been and I believe I always will be. Most people, when they hear the word sailor, picture the stereot...
A good old yacht designer on good old boats Issue 115: July/Aug 2017 One of the best pieces of advice Chuck Paine ever took — from a friend who had been there — was to not go to MIT and study naval ar...
As a young man, he crashed the racing-sailboat design party Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2017 I first met Doug Peterson in 1964, in Acapulco, after the race from San Diego. He was 17 and I was barely 21. He had...
The lifelong boat designer touched many boaters’ lives Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2017 Over the past century, a handful of individuals have made it their mission to help ordinary people get on the water and f...
Issue 118: Jan/Feb 2018 George Harding Cuthbertson passed away at the age of 88 at his home in Toronto on October 3, 2017. In the sailing world, George Cuthbertson is best known as the first “C” in C&...
His passion for boatbuilding helped jump-start an industry Issue 119: March/April 2018 Everett Pearson, rightly considered one of the most important figures in modern boatbuilding, passed away Christm...
Issue 122: Sept/Oct 2018 Most Good Old Boat readers sail in US and Canadian waters, but our humble magazine crosses other borders to reach a smattering of subscribers all around the globe. Here are a ...
Issue 129: Nov/Dec 2019 It was a Sunday morning in early June when Jeremy McGeary quit his job at Good Old Boat , via email, without notice. It was the last thing in the world he wanted to do. “I’m af...
A day in the life of a marine surveyor is one of questions, clues, diplomacy, and boat yoga. Issue 136: Jan/Feb 2021 It was the beer that got my uh-oh meter twitching. I was in a Food Lion parking lot...
