Issue 137: March/April 2021 Frank Willis Butler, the man who introduced hundreds of thousands of people to sailing during his lifetime as the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Catalin...
In English or engineering, this talented yacht designer loved a sweet line Issue 27: Nov/Dec 2002 One day in 1985, a yacht designer, the late Gary Mull, wandered into the Connecticut office of Sailor ...
He found the best way to win was to build his own boats Issue 41 : Mar/Apr 2005 Florida, like California, with its eternally warm weather and friendly skies, is a natural place in which to build boats...
Certainly not twins, the 33 and 36 share characteristics Issue 47 : Mar/Apr 2006 Our subjects are two sloops manufactured by the Columbia Yacht Company during its heyday in the 1960s when it was the p...
A veteran cruising couple tells what is working for them Issue 49 : Jul/Aug 2006 We left in the pre-dawn mist. As the bird song heralded the break of a new day, I looked back and saw the islands of we...
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...
A spacious coastal cruiser Issue 86: Sept/Oct 2012 Bob Barclay, a professional home inspector, and his wife, Cyndi, owned and sailed a Catalina 28 on Missouri’s Mark Twain Lake. While they both agreed...
A fast club racer that accommodates four adults Issue 88 : Jan/Feb 2013 Rob Geisler needed a new sailboat. Not a new boat as in brand-new, but new as in bigger. He had graduated from a 13-foot Styrofo...
She’s a modern example of “working sail” Issue 89 : Mar/Apr 2013 We began thinking of them as “the Tahoe Four.” There are other winter sailors on Lake Tahoe but this is the core group. Jim Hildinger i...
A ubiquitous trailerable cruising sailboat Issue 107 : Mar/Apr 2016 Catalina Yachts of Woodland Hills, California, produced the Catalina 25 from 1978 to 1990 from a design by the company’s founder and...
A variety of factors contributed to the end of yacht design’s golden age. Issue 133: July/Aug 2020 I recently finished reading Dick Carter’s autobiography, Dick Carter: Yacht Designer in the Gol...
Catalina Yachts: One big family Call the Woodland Hills headquarters of Catalina Yachts in California, and one thing strikes you right away about the choices the telephone answering system offers you....
Herb McCormick and I wrote our first books together, after hours, banging away at IBM Selectric typewriters on the second floor of the old Cruising World offices in downtown Newport, Rhode Island. He ...