Preview: The Three Boats I Lust After (and Why)

Perhaps it’s my age, or perhaps I am suffering from adult-onset Asperger’s Syndrome, but I can’t say that there are any boats that I lust after. Instead, there are a number of boats that I have deep and somewhat complex feelings about, boats whose names conjure up associations with delight, terror, melancholy, serenity.

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  • Al Aosved says:

    Nice to see Adventuress as one of your favorites. Our friend Dan Evans (and grandson of Bob and Ellamary Thorpe – great Thunderbird sailors) has been one of the captains. It is always a pleasure to watch Adventuress on Puget Sound and coming into Gig Harbor.

  • Ben Fuller says:

    In the days of my youth when my Uncle Sam was kind enough to pay me to hang in Hawaii and further west, I used to volunteer on the FALLS of CLYDE. First introduction to pitching seams and climbing rigging. That memory will be there even if the vessel isn’t. Not a bad thing.