Classic Boats

During its 30-plus years as an Olympic class, it challenged skippers while thrilling audiences.

This 50-foot fiberglass pilothouse trawler was a West Coast classic.

This design was part of a fleet that was built to take on the Seven Seas.

Today, quite a few boatbuilders use the term “pocket trawler” to describe the models they build.

A replica of the historic oyster dredge Ida May is taking shape in Oyster Bay, New York, under the hands of the Christeen Oyster Sloop Preservation Corp.

About 700: That’s the number of Pearson Tritons built during its mid-20th-century production run.

Ahhh, Christmas. What will Santa bring you? Here are the 12 Classic Boats Soundings brought you in 2018.

Sisu is a Finnish word that’s difficult to translate. It means something like endurance, determination, stamina, fortitude—or, in American slang, guts.

The True North 38 made its debut in 2001. Seventeen years later, it’s still turning heads.

The Herreshoff Marine Museum in Bristol, Rhode Island, celebrates the  gorgeous and ground-breaking designs of Capt. Nathanael Greene Herreshoff.

Based on a North Sea trawler and built of steel and aluminum in 1962, Sindbad was made to cross oceans. Fifty-six years later, she’s been given a makeover.

This 28-foot design won California’s Newport to Ensenada race in 1978 and also came in first in class in 1979.