Don’t be sidelined by bad bearings Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2017 Two hours into the 3-hour drive to Virginia’s Ware River Yacht Club, where I was taking my Chrysler Mutineer 15 to race in the Governor’s Cup...
Tame an unruly gennaker with a homemade snuffer Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2017 Aboard Smooth Moves, our Hughes 26, we do most of our cruising up and down the Strait of Georgia during the warm summer months. ...
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...
. . . and designers’ contrasting takes on the IOR Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2018 As Gregg Nestor mentions in his accompanying review of the Pearson 323, Bill Shaw and Pearson Yachts prided themselves on prod...
Signature sailboat designs seem to have gone by the board Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2017 Doug Peterson drew a 35-foot sailboat, borrowed money from his grandmother to have it built in his hometown, raced it ...
A solid though somewhat stately cruiser Issue 117: Nov/Dec 2017 Pearson Yachts set off in a new direction in the 1970s. After the company’s founders, Clint and Everett Pearson, left in the mid-19...
