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Pacific Seacraft
Pacific Seacraft Corporation is a Washington, North Carolina based sailboat manufacturer specializing in fiberglass monohull cruising boats. Pacific Seacraft is best known for producing the Crealock line of sailboats. These are heavy, overbuilt offshore cruising designs designed by William Crealock. Crealocks are distinctive due to their overhanging 'canoe' sterns and traditional lines. Their sailboats have been featured in both volumes of Ferenc Máté's ''The World's Best Sailboats'', and Fortune Magazine twice selected Pacific Seacraft as a producer of America's 100 best products.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 363. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. History The company was founded by Mike Howard and Henry Mohrschladt in 1975, with Mohrschladt as the first president. The first design produced was Mohrschladt's Pacific Seacraft 25. The company was later purchased by Singmarine Industries, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Keppel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Máté
Ferenc Máté (born 1945, in Hungarian Transylvania) grew up in Budapest. He escaped Hungary with his mother after the crushing of the 1956 revolution by Soviet tanks. He graduated from the University of British Columbia, and worked on a railroad extra-gang, on tugboats, and as boat-builder, then became photographer, book editor, and writer. He has lived in Vancouver, Laguna Beach, Whistler Mountain, New York City, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter. For much of their first twenty years together, Máté and his wife lived on sailboats, traveling the world, photographing and occasionally publishing books on sailing. His first book, From a Bare Hull, written when he was 28, was cited by Yachting Magazine as "worthy of a much older man with a lifetime of boat-building experiences." It is still considered one of the best books on boat-building ever written. In addition to sailing book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dana 24
The Dana 24 is an American trailerable sailboat that was designed by William Crealock as an ocean cruiser and first built in 1974.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 188-189. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 303. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. Production The design was built by Pacific Seacraft in the United States from 1984 to 1999, but the company went out of business in 2007. The design was acquired by Seacraft Yachts, who commenced building the design again, starting with serial number 351. Over 250 examples of the design have been completed. Design The Dana 24 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a cutter sloop rig, a spooned and slightly raked stem, a nearly vertical transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a tiller, a bowsprit and a fixed long keel. It displaces and carries of ba ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pacific Seacraft Pilothouse 40
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Ericson 38
Ericsson is a Swedish telecommunications equipment manufacturer. Ericsson or Ericson may also refer to: Companies *Ericson Yachts, a former builder of fiberglass yachts *Ericsson Mobile Platforms, a company providing cellular platforms technology *Sony Ericsson, a joint venture between Sony Corporation and Ericsson *LG-Ericsson, a joint venture between LG and Ericsson *Ericsson Hewlett Packard Telecom, a Swedish consortium Places United States *Ericsson, Minneapolis, Minnesota *Ericson, Nebraska Other uses *Ericson Alexander Molano (born 1979), Colombian Gospel singer *Ericsson cycle, a thermodynamic cycle *Ericsson Open, a former name of the Miami Masters tennis tournament * USS ''Ericsson'', warships in the United States Navy *Ericsson Globe, a sports arena in Stockholm named after the company Ericsson See also *Ericsson (surname) * Eriksson, a common Swedish patronymic surname * Erickson (other) *Ericsson Stadium (other) Ericsson Stadium is the former name ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orion 27-2
The Orion 27-2, also called the Orion 27 Mk II, is an American sailboat that was designed by Henry Mohrschladt as a cruiser and first built in 1981.Sherwood, Richard M.: ''A Field Guide to Sailboats of North America, Second Edition'', pages 192-193. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1994. The design is a development of the Orion 27, with a longer cabin coach house roof to allow for the installation of an extra set of portlights. Production The design was built by Pacific Seacraft from 1981 until 1993, but it is now out of production. Design The Orion 27-2 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of plywood-cored fiberglass, with teak wood trim. It has an optional cutter rig as a sloop or a yawl, a raked stem, an angled transom, a keel-mounted rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel, with a cutaway forefoot. It displaces and carries of ballast. The design has a length overall of , including the wooden planked. platform-mounted, teak bowsprit, with dual Sampson ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Orion 27
The Orion 27 is an American sailboat that was designed by Henry Mohrschladt as a cruiser and first built in 1979. The Orion 27 design was developed into the Orion 27-2 in 1981. Production The design was built by Pacific Seacraft in the United States, from 1979 until 1981, but it is now out of production. Design The Orion 27 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with the decks having a plywood core, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop, cutter rig or yawl rig, a raked stem with a bowsprit, an angled transom, an internally mounted spade-type rudder controlled by a wheel and a fixed long keel. It displaces and carries of lead ballast. The boat has a draft of with the standard keel and is fitted with an inboard diesel engine of for docking and maneuvering. There are two interior arrangements, designated "A" and "C". Both have sleeping accommodation for five people, with a double "V"-berth in the bow cabin and an aft cabin with a single berth on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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