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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Cutter In the early 1970s, the world of offshore cruising boats was dominated by double-ended types reflecting the designs of William Atkin. Atkin’s double-enders were Americanizations of the Scottish designer Colin Archer’s work in...
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Boats and Gear/Used Boat Notebook
Author:John Kretschmer
November 2006 The marketplace is overflowing with great buys I’ve been doing a lot of sailing and a lot of traveling lately. In the past few months I have meandered through the Chesapeake Bay, crossed Lake Michigan a couple of times and...
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Boats and Gear/Used Boat Notebook
Author:Brook Berth
Three great used boats first launched in 1966 are still sailing strong 45-year-old charmers Three great used boats first launched in 1966 are still sailing strong In 1966 John Lennon infamously announced that the Beatles were more famous...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Bluewater Cruiser Here's another concept that crosses the line from yacht to workboat. Designed by the Dutch firm of Olivier van Meer Design, this 151-foot vessel is intended for a German organization involved with the counseling and education...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Talk about different flavors. About 25 years ago the door to my small office flew open and in burst George Buehler looking wild and woolly smoking a pipe with a broken stem repaired with a wad of black electrical tape. Under his arm was a large...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Bluewater Cruiser But let's say you don't want to fly around the warm bay in your catamaran. Instead you want to join the International Fund For Animal Welfare and go to sea on various research projects. Simon Rogers has designed a vessel for...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
T he Archambault boats are quickly making a name for themselves as quality-built race winners in Europe. The new A31 should also be a very fast boat and it is interesting to note the similarities between this design and that of the 9.5-meter Nacira....
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Racer-Cruiserr Here’s a very interesting boat designed in America and built in South Africa. Rodger Martin brings an eclectic approach to yacht design and seems to excel in very fast, handsome yachts. (After working with Martin for about...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Performance Cruiser This is a very well-thought-out boat, and I really don’t have the space here to do it justice, so if you find it interesting why don’t you write for Aerodyne’s substantial and informative promotional package. I’ll...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Racer Here is another Class 40 design. This time the designer is Marc Lombard. The Akilaria is built as a stock, production boat and available in both “standard” and “race” versions. I assume that there is a difference in the two versions...
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Boats and Gear/Used Boat Notebook
Author:John Kretschmer
April 2002 Forgiving yet capable of crossing oceans, this traditional cruiser has built an avid following When Canadian builder Kurt Hansen commissioned Carl Alberg to design a 30-foot sloop for his Whitby Boat Works back in 1962 few would have...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Bill Cook designed this Alden 55. It’s actually five inches shorter than the Hallberg-Rassy. We don’t see much work from Bill Cook these days but there was a time when he designed some very fast race boats. Mr. Cook’s new design is leaner,...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Auxiliary cruiser Here's a design from the Alden design office that is the styling antithesis of the Rondo. This boat is pure American classic yacht styling and beautifully done. The boat was designed for a Great Lakes client and is currently...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Coastal cruiser As I look back through all the volumes of SAILING Designs one of the thoughts that strikes me is where are all these designers today? Some, like my old drinking buddy Gary Mull, are dead. I didn’t know Carl Schumacher...
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Boats and Gear/Boat Test
Author:John Kretschmer
May 2007 A sweet mix of simplicity and sailability make this a desirable daysailer I have had the privilege of sailing a wide array of boats for SAILING Magazine Boat Test. From nimble dinghies and daysailers, to custom-built rocketships and...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Performance cruiserr Carl Schumacher is on a roll with these Alerions. I was lucky enough to see this boat at SailExpo at Atlantic City this year. It is indeed a handsome boat and it's fun to see the yawl rig being used. "What's with the yawl...
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Boats and Gear/Boat Test
Author:Bill Schanen
An elegant hybrid that joins modern performance and traditional beauty Out there, in the fog, Block Island beckoned. We didn't mind that it beckoned from a point directly upwind. We had a weatherly boat and all day to sail from Newport to the...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Daysailer Garry Hoyt and the Alerion team bring us this updated version of the traditional Cape Cod catboat. Catboats are older than Bill Wyman and may be an acquired taste. Certainly the styling, with its snubbed-off ends and superbroad...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Back in the mid-1960s the Islander 36 set the standard for medium-sized boat interiors. Then the race was on to put more and more accommodations into production “racer-cruisers” or “cruiser-racers.” A quick look at today’s typical...
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Boats and Gear/Perry on Design
Author:Robert H. Perry
Yesterday’s romance, today’s performer I t is easy to get caught up in Mega yacht fever. Rare and exotic materials punctuated with gold fixtures and objects of art for ambiance work skillfully together to remove any feeling at all that you are...
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