Doug Hylan built his first boat at age 14: a disastrous catamaran with a propensity to bury her lee hull before realizing any adolescent-appropriate speeds. After a decade or so of dabbling in more or less respectable professions, he relapsed into boatbuilding, first working with Jim Steele and Joel White, then going off on his own. He is currently CEO and janitor at D. N. Hylan & Associates in Brooklin, Maine, a boatyard that specializes in the design, building, and restoration of wooden boats.
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| December 3, 2011 |
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| April 5, 2013 |
What About a Sailboat’s Displacement? Doug Hylan Discusses Light and Heavy: Among the dockside pundits, the discussion of light vs. heavy displacement usually revolves around the ability of a crui...
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| February 16, 2013 |
TUVA II, A New Concept for Cruising the Intracoastal Waterway: TUVA II is not (at least at this point) a finished design, but just a preliminary to a design that I would love t...
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| November 27, 2012 |
Notes on Design, Part II—Three Basic Hull Types: TYPE I Let’s start with a typical sailboat type hull, with a fairly fine bow and the transom up out of the water....
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| October 2, 2012 |
Notes on Design, Part 1 — The Case for Going Slower: Off Center Harbor blogs seem like they might be a good place to try to discuss some technical issues in boat design. The...
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| June 23, 2012 |
Learning from Experience; My Biggest Disaster and What it Taught Me.: This incident was hardly a disaster, but it certainly could have been! More of a mystery really. It happened aboard...
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| March 6, 2012 |
The Influence of Joel White: I moved to Brooklin, Maine in 1980, and part of the paraphernalia that I brought from our former digs in inland Belgrade...
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| March 3, 2012 |
Why Choose A Traditionally Built Boat?: The easy answer: So that when you wake up in the morning, sun streaming through a port light, you can admire the beautif...
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| January 1, 2012 |
The Three Boats I Lust After (and Why): Perhaps it is my age, or maybe it is the fact that I spend a good deal of time taking care of boats, but generally speak...
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