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Following the closure of the Reedham yard, the Fleming team of Cowie and Shard stepped in, and production of an all-new model, the Corvette 340, began in 2009–2010 at the Tung Hwa yard in Taiwan. Although using much of the 320's infrastructure, including the original hull, the 340's most significant change was the creation of a full-width aft ...
Thomas Fleming Day (1861 – August 19, 1927) was a sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of The Rudder , a monthly magazine about boats. He was the first to win the annual New York to Bermuda race.
Hunter Marine was an American boat builder, now known as Marlow-Hunter, LLC, owned by David E. Marlow.The company did produce the Mainship powerboat brand. Marlow also owns and manufactures the Marlow Yachts brand consisting of long range power cruisers in the 37 to 110 foot range.
Model yacht clubs have existed for many years in Great Britain, Ireland and the United States, most of them holding a number of regattas during each season. The rules do not generally require the owner or skipper of a model to build his own craft, but among model yachtsmen the designing and the construction of the boats constitute as important and interesting a part of the sport as the actual ...
Founded in 1983, [1] the original yard is located on a 7 acres (2.8 ha) marina, and contains 180,000 square feet (17,000 m 2) of climate controlled manufacturing space. Sister company RECS (Renewable Energy Composite Solutions), occupies 10,000 square feet (930 m 2 ), manufacturing wind turbine and hydrokinetic composite component fabrication.
The company started its own boat building subsidiary in 1998. Called Hunt Yachts, it built high-end powerboats in the 25 to 29 ft (7.6 to 8.8 m) size range. It was building about 30 to 40 boats per year in 2013. The division was sold to Hinckley Yachts in 2013. [4]
The term "yacht rock" originated in a 12-episode online video series called Yacht Rock that aired between 2005 and 2010 and lovingly lampooned the late '70s/ early '80s fusion of soft rock, jazz ...
Buyers found it was one of the few boats to offer over six feet of head room in a boat less than 30 feet in length." [8] In a used boat review in 2016, in Practical Sailor, Darrell Nicholson wrote, "For better or worse, the Columbia 8.7 is modern in appearance, with a very straight sheer, pronounced forward overhang, and no overhang aft. The ...