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Stephens Bros. boat owners meet every year at the Stephens Rendezvous, organized by the Northern California Fleet of the Classic Yacht Association, to show off these beautiful vessels. A collection of Stephens Bros. documents, photographs and original drawings are available to the public in the archives of The Haggin Museum in the brothers ...
The W. D. Schock Corporation (usually styled W. D. Schock Corp) is an American boat builder originally based in Newport Beach, California, [1] later in Corona, California and currently located in Santa Ana, California. The company was founded by William "Bill" D. Schock in 1958 and specializes in the design and manufacture of fiberglass ...
Boats were often given Mediterranean-sounding names, and the boat classes within the model were often indicated by a model type then model name, with a hyphen in between. For example, in the 14-foot (4.3 m) range there was a model called the Lido, which came in three configurations: the Sport-Lido, Club-Lido, and Lido (standard).
The company began in 1974 in Berkeley, California with two ships. In 1980 the original owner, Ward Proescher, sold the business to Terry MacRae and P. Michael Watson. Proescher later went on to start a competing charter yacht company in the Bay Area, Commodore C
It was founded in 1969 in Hollywood, California by Frank Butler. [1] Catalina Yachts is one of the largest boat manufacturers in the world, with over 80,000 boats manufactured to date. [2] Though Catalina produces boats from as small as eight feet under their Capri nameplate, the company is best known for its production of mid-sized cruisers.
The company's original brand, Malibu Boats, remains the company's premium brand. [14] In the early 1990s, Malibu adopted the practice of offering to fly purchasers of certain high-end custom boats to their factory headquarters, then located in Merced, "for a red carpet factory tour where they can see the special edition being built right before their eyes". [20]
Cal Yachts (also known as Jensen Marine and Cal Boats) was a manufacturer of performance oriented fiberglass sailboats from the 1960s to the 1980s. The Costa Mesa , California , headquartered company was founded in 1957, among the earliest of all-fiberglass, mass-production sailboat builders.
The owner and operator of Silver Shadow III, Plaxton, [22] "decided not to participate" in the 1983 Admiral's Cup, [20] and his yacht's place was taken by another C&C boat, Magistri, which was also designed in 1982. [23] [20] This Cup team of three boats managed a fifth-place finish, [24] an all-time high for Canada. [4]