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The Columbia 40 is an American sailboat that was designed by Charles Morgan as a racer-cruiser and first built in 1964. [1] [2] [3]The design was based upon Morgan's Sabre, a one-off racing boat that was successful in competition, winning Class C 1964 Southern Ocean Racing Circuit (SORC) and second place overall.
The Morgan 41 designed by Morgan, his most popular design, became a standard in the sailing charter industry for its strength, simplicity, and space belowdecks. In response to customer feedback while operating Morgan Yacht, Morgan designed the shallow draft Morgan Out Island 41, "the most popular boat over 40 feet overall ever built."
The Mark I was first known as the Vitesse 40 and later, with some modifications, renamed the Block Island 40. [8] As late as 1961, references to the Vitesse 40 were still found in VBI promotional materials. [10] The Beetle Boat Division of American Boatbuilding Corporation built a total of 22 hulls of the Mark I design. [5]
The company specializes in the design and manufacture of fiberglass sailboats. [1] [2] The company was founded by Charles Britton in 1971. He started the company as a result of buying out the remains of the Douglass & McLeod after its factory was destroyed by a fire in 1971. [1] [2]
The Valiant 40 was one of the first Sailboats designed by naval architect Robert Perry, it was introduced in 1973. [1] The boat is configured as a rear cockpit double-ender, cutter rigged monohull. The boat's design was considered revolutionary at that time by bringing aspects of racing design into open ocean cruising yachts which up to then ...
Ted Gozzard left the company in 1981 to found a new company, Gozzard Yachts, based in nearby Goderich, Ontario, and his younger brother, Haydn Gozzard, took over running Bayfield Boat Yard, including designing its final boat, the Bayfield 36. The cutter rigged 36 retained the original styling of Ted Gozzard's earlier designs. [1] [10] [11]
Hylas Yachts is a brand of fiberglass, center-cockpit sailboats and luxury power yachts built in Taiwan by Queen Long Marine Ltd and designed by Sparkman & Stephens, German Frers, Bill Dixon and Salthouse of New Zealand. Sizes range from 42 to 70 feet. Joseph Huang, the president of Queen Long Marine, introduced the brand in 1984. [1]
The Hullmaster 27, also called the HM-27, is a Canadian sailboat, that was designed by Edward S. Brewer and Robert Walstrom and first built in 1974. The design is out of production. The design is out of production.