Innholdsfortegnelse for November 2022 i Soundings

A decade ago, a new department debuted in a fall issue of Soundings. It was called Classics, and the section was designed to highlight antique craft (built from 1919 to 1942) and classic models (from 1943 to 1975), both power and sail. The editors selected the boats to be featured and illustrator Jim Ewing used his significant talent to create rich visuals for each model. Over time, we added “late classics” to the mix, or boats built from 1976 to the late 1990s. The department was well-received from the moment it left the dock, and over the years Classics has become one of our most popular sections. At this time of year, we draw up a list of boats to cover in 2023. To develop the candidates, we talk with…

Owners of boats as small as 35 feet all along the U.S. East Coast say NOAA Fisheries is unfairly targeting them with a proposed rule that would dramatically expand the areas designated to protect endangered North Atlantic right whales, and that would require boaters to slow to 10 knots or less to avoid striking the animals during certain times of the year. “It’s just stupid,” says Capt. Craig Thatcher, who runs the 35-foot Bertram Never Enough out of Beaufort, North Carolina. “Fishermen are all talking about this. If you see one, you get out of the way unless you want to tear your damn boat up.” The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced the proposed rule on August 1 by publishing it in the Federal Register. NOAA Fisheries says the…

LOA (w/platform): 46’6”  Beam: 13’10” Draft (motors up) 2’6” Weight (approx.): 28,375 lbs. Power: (3) 425-hp Yamaha F425s Fuel: 600 gals. Water: 100 gals. Base Price: $1.43 million Pursuit Boats has achieved “yacht” status with the launch of its new flagship, the OS 445, which was unveiled to dealers and the media in Tampa, Florida, in August. While the Florida-based builder made its reputation with smaller center-console and dual-console fishing boats, this big (46’6” with platform), beamy (13’10”) vessel is designed to support cruising adventures lasting from a weekend to an entire summer. The OS 445 is the largest model in Pursuit’s Offshore range of express-style fishing boats, which also includes the OS 325, the OS 355 and the OS 385—one of the most popular models in the Pursuit fleet…

NORTHERN MARINE 57 LOA: 57’0” Beam: 17’6” Draft :5’10” Displ.: 135,000 lbs. Fuel: 2,600 gals. Water: 350 gals. Sandy Williamson and Dan Kirsch call Beverly, Massachusetts, home, but they have barely been there in years. On their Outer Reef 610, they logged 20,000 miles as liveaboards in just under 5 years. They ran from Florida to Maine three times, spent a summer in Nova Scotia and more than a few winters and springs in the Bahamas. They planned to explore the Pacific Northwest, but then COVID-19 hit and they couldn’t make the trip. When they had their first grandchild and decided to spend more time on land, they sold the Outer Reef. However, it wasn’t long before they were boat shopping again, this time for a smaller model, a trawler…

After 5 years of planning and nearly three years of construction by the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, Maryland, the all-new Maryland Dove has sailed to its permanent home in historic St. Mary’s City, Maryland. Arriving on August 27, 2022, surrounded by a fleet of recreational and commercial vessels, it replaces the first reproduction of the 17th-century ship built in Cambridge, Maryland, in 1978 and which is being retired because of her age and condition. The 40-ton ship—with an overall length of 84 feet, length-on-deck of 57 feet and a beam of 17 feet—more accurately represents the original Dove that sailed into the Chesapeake Bay from England in 1633 along with her larger companion ship, the Ark. The Dove was the ideal size for early colonists to explore…

Rick and Suzanne Rosenwald have been helping people all their lives. He’s a retired firefighter and she’s a retired paramedic and healthcare worker. It just made sense to them, after they completed an America’s Great Loop cruise, to volunteer as helpers for other Loopers cruising near their hometown of Sheboygan, Wisconsin, on Lake Michigan. “As we were doing the Loop, there were so many people who helped us out with little things here and there,” Suzanne says. “When you’re on your boat, you don’t have a car to go run and get things. You don’t have a way to go get a certain screw or a cord for the internet, things like that. Driving people to get these things is easy for us, and we enjoy it. We meet all…

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Andrew Cooley always had it in the back of his mind that he’d do classic boat restorations. “It’s something I was always planning for,” the owner of Cooley Marine Management in Stratford, Connecticut, says. At 44, Cooley already has a long boating history. By age 6 he was sailing by compass through Maine’s fog and after graduating from college he crossed the Atlantic on a Westsail 32 with his dad, a retired Navy officer. He became a sailmaker at Doyle on Long Island, worked as a yacht rigger for Derecktor in Mamaroneck, New York, and worked his way up to service manager at the yard’s Bridgeport, Connecticut, location. He started Cooley Marine when Derecktor closed its Bridgeport yard in 2011, working out of a Volvo stationwagon and a Chevy Astro…

For most of their adult lives, April and Larry Smith had very little knowledge about boating. Aside from short stints on vessels when they were in their 20s—with April serving as a crew member on an 86-foot yawl in Marina Del Rey and Larry spending 9 months as first mate on a 43-foot trimaran—the couple hadn’t spent much time on the water at all. They were in their 60s and living on their 10-acre horse ranch in California when they almost decided to buy a sailing catamaran to keep in the British Virgin Islands. Then they heard about the Great Loop and their boating plans changed. “We ended up buying a 52-foot Hatteras, because the sailing catamaran is not your usual Great Loop boat,” April explains. “But the whole time…

For too many years, pilothouse sailing yachts had a clunky look, with an oversized salon projecting well above the deck, seemingly attached as an afterthought to the otherwise clean lines of a capable ocean-going vessel. However, when Bruce Farr and his renowned crew of designers, naval architects and engineers produced Design #373, the Farr 50 Pilot House, in 1997, they raised the bar for this particular design. They also heightened expectations for owners, who prized excellent performance under sail, offshore reliability across a wide range of weather and sea conditions, and accommodations that blended home-style amenities and carefully planned spaces. Only 25 of the 50PH models were built, and they were constructed to a very high standard, by BSI Marine in Lysekil, Sweden, and sold through Boat Sales International UK.…

“There’s the emotional side—moments of terror, tedium, anxiety,” says New-York based artist and casual sailor Zoë Sheehan-Saldaña, 49, about her first taste of the Race to Alaska, a 750-mile mad dash from Port Townsend, Washington, to Ketchikan, Alaska. The race is designed for boats propelled by wind and muscle power only; no outside assistance allowed. “Then there were moments that were so beautiful, you can’t believe you are in this. But being so close to the water, I felt vulnerable by the intensity. If anything happens, whether it’s a challenge or a scare, you are in it. There’s no boundary, really.” While campaigning a small, self-built, plywood trimaran with three sailing rigs and miniscule accommodations, Sheehan-Saldaña and her soul mate, Joachim Rösler, braved mountainous seas, rapacious currents and fickle breezes…

It is May 27, 1898, in Humboldt, California. Euro-Americans had only settled in the region less than 50 years prior, with the first ships arriving from San Francisco in the spring of 1850, bringing passengers en route to the gold mining districts on the Klamath, Salmon and Trinity rivers. As the gold rush subsided, however, attention turned to the region’s other resources: large trees, salmon and land. In the painting “Sea Trade” by David Thimgan, the clippership Woolahra is being towed into Humboldt Bay by the steam tug Ranger. Clippers were mid-19th-century merchant sailing vessels designed for speed, especially to get to China, but also from New York to California. At this point in the late 19th century, lumber was one of Humboldt Bay’s main exports, and shipbuilding was also…

LOA: 36’4” Beam: 13’8” Draft: 3’2” Displ.: 23,000 lbs. Power: (1) 100-hp Volvo Penta diesel Fuel: 280 gals. Water: 300 gals. I met Mary and Chris Kelleher aboard their Krogen 36 Manatee on a hot, sunny afternoon in Annapolis, Maryland. They were only days away from realizing a longtime dream—crossing their own wake in New York Harbor to complete their first Great Loop, which began in May of 2021. Both had grown up near the water, and when they moved to the south shore of Long Island in New York, they bought their first boat, a Boston Whaler Montauk 17. This was followed by a Luhrs 28, on which they introduced their three children to boating, exploring the coast all the way out to Montauk. “Our next boat was a…