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Gulfstar Yachts was a large manufacturer of fiberglass sailboats and powerboats built in the Tampa Bay, Florida area from 1970 until 1990 when the Viking Yachts purchased the company's assets. [1] Vince Lazzara, one of pioneers of fiberglass sailboat construction, founded the company. Lazzara had previously been one of the founders of Columbia ...
Morgan was born in Chicago November 1929 and raised in Florida. [3] Morgan built the yacht Brisote and completed a St. Petersburg, Florida to Havana, Cuba race with Bruce Bidwell. [ 3 ] Morgan attended the University of Tampa [ 3 ] [ 4 ] and took a job with Johnson Sails, located at the Jean Street Shipyard on the Hillsborough River . [ 3 ]
A Florida man sold his 31-foot sailboat in 2019 — then Hurricane Helene washed it ashore 5 years later. Now he’s been threatened with $1,000/day fines if he doesn’t remove it Maurie Backman
The halyard is used to raise (hail or hal) the yard when setting the sail. A gaff rigged sail has two; a throat halyard to lift the end of the gaff nearer the mast, and a peak halyard to lift the outer end. A more modern triangular (Bermuda or "Marconi") sail has only one halyard which is attached at its uppermost point (the head).
The gaff is hoisted by two halyards: Halyards (and edges) on a gaff rigged sail. The throat halyard hoists the throat of the sail (the end closer to the mast) at the forward end of the gaff and bears the main weight of the sail and the tension of the luff. [5] The peak halyard lifts the aft end of the gaff and bears the leech tension. Small ...
Midland Sailing Club United Kingdom: Birmingham: 1894 Mylor Yacht Club United Kingdom: Mylor: 1963 Netley Cliff Sailing Club United Kingdom: Southampton New Quay Yacht Club United Kingdom: New Quay, Wales: 1951 Penzance Sailing Club United Kingdom: Penzance: 1939 Port Navas Yacht Club United Kingdom: Porth Navas: 1958 Pwllheli Sailing Club
TAMPA, Fla. — University of Tampa senior Terrence Concannon was walking his usual route from school in mid-September when he encountered something out of the ordinary: a man in a sailboat ...
TAMPA, Fla. — 54-year-old Joseph Malinowski, who has been dubbed “Lieutenant Dan” on social media, has survived record-breaking Hurricane Milton on his 20-foot sailboat.