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Trendsetter from the U.S. West Coast: Islander Bahama 28
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Winning looks and ways give the Islander Bahama 28 its appeal. "Classic Plastic" from our December 2011 issue.
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December 15, 2011Trendsetter from the U.S. West Coast: Islander Bahama 28by James C. WilliamsWinning looks and ways give the Islander Bahama 28 its appeal. "Classic Plastic" from our December 2011 issue.
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September 12, 2011Traditional Lines, Seaworthy Performanceby Jen BrettThe offshore-capable Reliance 44, with appropriate systems upgrades, can today be a comfortable, modern cruising boat. "Classic Plastic" Boat Review from our September 2011 issue.
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August 8, 2011Pocket Clipperby Richard SmithWith a nod to the past, the Ericson Cruising 31 is sound and well mannered. Classic Plastic from our August 2011 issue
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April 26, 2011Peterson 44 1by Jeremy McGearyI once hitched a ride on a Peterson 44 from Grenada to St. Lucia with an Aussie skipper. On the way, we stopped in the Tobago Cays; then the Aussie took sick, and I spent most of the rest of the trip at the helm. The passage was a hard slog to windward in a leeward-setting current, but the Peterson sailed beautifully and had a very comfortable helm. That kind of sailing performance is worth something.
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April 26, 2011Passport 40by Jeremy McGearyNo list of well-endowed cruising boats would be complete without including a design from Robert H. Perry. He’s given us many from which to choose, and the Passport 40 makes a fine example. I like Perry’s generous keels and robust skeg-hung rudders, and he certainly has an eye for a sweet line and a sweet-sailing hull.
Passport Yachts has spent three decades building a reputation for solid boats, and it’s still doing just that. You can’t say that about many companies that were building boats in Taiwan in the 1970s and 1980s. -
April 26, 2011Nicholson 35by Jeremy McGearyIt seems I’ve gone full circle here, but family is family. In my years at C&N, I saw a few Nicholson 35s being built, and I even got to sail on one or two. I also admire the work of Ray Wall, who designed this boat and several other classic Nicholsons, including the Nicholson 55, which was one of the best designs of its era, if not all time. You can see the lineage in the 35’s hull and feel it in its comfortable motion.
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April 26, 2011Crealock 37by Jeremy McGearyHere’s a 37-footer that might also be in contention for a pretty-boat award. It’s the product of designer Bill Crealock’s own experience sailing across oceans, and I happily defer to his judgment. I’d consider the Tayana 37 for this slot, but I think Crealock drew a prettier canoe stern than Bob Perry did on the Tayana. (Sorry, Bob.) Maybe it’s not quite as powerful, but it might also be a little more forgiving in a big quartering sea. I’ve not spent any getting-to-know-you time on a boat with a canoe stern, but I think it might be fun to do so.
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April 26, 2011Nicholson 476by Jeremy McGearyC&N offered the boat in several configurations: aft cockpit, center cockpit, sloop, ketch, and three choices of keel. We only built a few of the possible permutations, but accommodating them all in the design was quite an exercise. The deck mold had three parts. The forward part served both models and included the forward couple of feet of the center cockpit. To that would be attached the mold for either the center cockpit or aft cockpit.
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January 25, 2011Allmand 31: Florida Born and Boundby Gregg NestorIn the Allmand 31, shoal-water cruising meets high-level comfort.
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January 18, 2011An-Tikiby Bill SpringerAnthony Smith, an 84-year-old Englishman, and a team of older gentlemen are just about to head out across the Atlantic on a raft made of water pipes.
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The surprise of the annual FLIR/Raymarine Miami Show dinner-and-demo cruise was the introduction of a higher-end M-Series camera with two-axis gyro stabilization and other enhancements. You can download the M-618CS brochure here, and also see a video illustrating how well it corrects the camera for pitch and yaw (but not roll). I saw it in action on the otherwise calm-water cruise thanks to a clever motion-simulating mount FLIR engineers came up with, and the stabilization seemed quite ...
