The sardine carrier WM. UNDERWOOD was launched in 1941 in response to a wartime spike in demand for canned herring. She was relaunched in August 2019 after more than a decade of rebuilding and yacht conversion.
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Famous among racing sailors in Auckland, New Zealand, the 45′ cutter IDA was designed by Charles Bailey and built by his sons, Charles and Walter, in Auckland in 1895. -
At Ship’s Coy Forge in Lyman, New Hampshire, Med Chandler develops the shape of a caulking iron. These tools are one of the primary products of the forge, which also makes hardware. -
The year was 2005 and Tretter, his father, Bud, and a crew had taken their restored 85′ Army Air Forces crash boat P–520 from their home in Long Beach, California, to Puget Sound to lead a parade of tall ships. -
They embarked upon a search for “a boat beautiful and old-fashioned, a boat in which we could have peace and freedom away from gadgets and easy comforts, relying mostly on the old arts of seamanship.” -
Mullet boats developed beyond their fish-boat roots, providing almost a century’s worth of high performance and thrills to a long line of sailors in Auckland, New Zealand. -
On the outside, the 20′ runabout ZELECTRA harks back to 1940s-vintage Chris-Craft Barrelbacks. Under the hood, she’s on the cutting edge of propulsion technology. -
The crew on ROUTE 66 hikes hard during the final charge to the finish line of the first 2019 Sun Series Race. -
The former sardine carrier GRAYLING steams along Eggemoggin Reach, Maine, soon after her restoration in 1997. Benjamin River Marine accomplished the vessel’s conversion to a yacht under the guidance of the yard’s then co-proprietor, Doug Hylan. -
At the EVLI Hangon Regatta in Hanko, Finland, the crew of the Hai-class sloop SIOEN displays precision teamwork at the windward mark.