Profiles of People and Boat Manufacturers

The Bounty Boat skipper and crew

Based on photos, Don McIntyre looks to be a much jollier guy than William Bligh.

The crew (from left): Dave Wilkinson, Dave Pryce, Don McIntyre and Chris Wilde After coming in second in his class in the 1990 BOC around-the-world race, McIntyre, now 53, embarked on several Antarctic expeditions, both by sea and over the ice. He says he has been dreaming of following's Bligh's trail for 27 years.

The Sawzall School of Boat Design

In his quest for perfection, Ken Sawyer has owned 25 yachts, three of which he's cut up and reshaped.

Now retired, entrepreneur and avid boater Ken Sawyer has his sights on designing the perfect motorsailer. Like most boaters, entrepreneur Ken Sawyer of Cushing, Maine, and New York City has dreamed for decades about his ultimate yacht - a handsome, superb-sailing pilothouse motorsailer that will cruise at 11 knots under sail or power.

From the drawing board: the Sawyer lineup

During Ken Sawyer's 39-year quest for the ultimate motorsailer, he and his Yarkitecture team have developed three semicustom lines of performance-oriented, seakindly yachts - sail, motorsailer and power.

Flooded with water, light and sound

Sawyer's Cushing, Maine, home blends yacht and architectural design elements, including port-light-style windows and gaff-rig curtains that can be reefed.

Ken Sawyer's vision of home as a yacht in a harbor is being realized in Cushing, Maine, by 300-some craftspeople in 15-plus firms collaborating as Yarkitecture Design.

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Sam Devlin - Designer, builder, tinkerer

The master of stitch-and-glue will build you a boat or show you how to do it yourself

Devlin (here in his Olympia, Wash., office) says he builds boats with 'personality.' Taking US 101 west from Olympia on a crystal-clear day, it's obvious why the license plates refer to Washington as the Evergreen State. Pastures, meadows and forests frame the islands and the sparkling blue waters of Puget Sound against the backdrop of the jagged Olympic Mountains in the distance.

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