Steve Stone

Filmmaker

Steve Stone studied documentary filmmaking and character animation at California Institute of the Arts.  Long before taking up filmmaking though, when Steve was 10, his dad came home from the office one day with a Laser sailboat in tow. The Lazer would go on to imprint a deep need within Steve to be on the water, under sail, playing with the edge of the wind. Twenty years later, on a serendipitous day in the South Pacific aboard a lee-board ketch designed by L. Francis Herreshoff, Steve read one of Maynard Bray’s books and got hooked on the beauty of well-designed traditional boats. Steve credits Wayne Roberts, a boatbuilder in New Zealand, for deepening that appreciation for beauty into a reverence for simple boats and a simpler life.  After 20 more years spent in the business world, Steve moved to Brooklin in 2009 for a simpler life away from the big city, and it was again the inspiration of Maynard Bray that prompted Steve to explore the novelty of making moving pictures about the world of classic boats.