Sailboat Reviews

Stiletto 27: The Beachcat Grown Up

It's hard to mistake the Stiletto 27s appearance-typically with blazing topside graphics and aircraft-style, pop-top companionway hatches. It's also hard for the average sailor...

Stiletto Foiler on Horizon

This summer, Stiletto Manufacturing will be launching the all-new Stiletto X-Series, including a foiling catamaran, with the first boats expected to splash about the...
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Hunter 30: Still the Affordable Fantasy

Hunter Marine began building auxiliary sailboats in 1974, largely as the result of the first oil embargo and the new energy consciousness that followed....

The 70s Dream Endures: Hunter 30

If you grew up sailing in Florida in the 1970s and 80s as I did, you probably spent many hours daydreaming and looking at...

Columbia 8.7

The Columbia 8.7 was one of the first of a series of modern small cruisers built by Columbia in the late 1970s. All were...

Dragonfly 800

At the 1992 U.S. Sailboat Show in Annapolis, Maryland, there were more than a dozen multihulls on exhibit. How times have changed; just a...

EXPO Solar Sailer

Put Gary Hoyt, Ted Hood and Everett Pearson in a canoe and you have the marine industry’s maximum tripartite brain power. The cerebral sparks...

Grampian 26

The first fiberglass auxiliary sailboats were built in the late 1950s; for the record, the first was the 40-foot Philip Rhodes-designed Bounty II (1956),...

Hunter 27

The Hunter 27 is the smallest boat in the Hunter line, which runs up to 43' in length. The Hunter 27 is a popular...

Island Trader 37/38

During the late 1970s, when Taiwan-built boats began to appear on the U.S. market in increasing numbers, few boats better illustrated the Far East...

What Is The Best Folding Bike For Your Sailboat?

This week we explore what the best folding bike is to keep on your sailboat and compare the time honored Dahon Folding Bike with...