Cal 29 Fleet: Volkswagen approach to chartering
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Cal 29s designed by Bill Lapworth and Jack Jensen in 1970's, are dependable functional, easy to use and suitable for one or two couples or for a small family. Jim and Franca Allen of the Canadian Pacific Northwest Sailing Charters in Victoria, British Columbia, feel that a fleet of well built and renovated older and smaller sailboats with new four-stroke engines, and low capital costs and overhead costs, will attract attention and fill a niche due to their affordability.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2004
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Dufour at 40: A boatbuilder reflects on middle age
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Dufour Yachts, which turned 40 in 2004, is under the scrutiny of new investors and guidance of new management. To add financial momentum to its self-reinvention, Dufour is banking on export sales, taking advantage of growing markets in the Far East and the Antipodes, both of which well represented at the Palma convention where no endemic production builders exist.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2006
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A Beautiful friendship: An able Spanish yard teams up with Sparkman and Stephens to create a luxurious passagemaker
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The designer and the builder of the North Wind 58 boat have created a passagemaker that blends oceangoing scantings with the grace and elegance of a fine yatch. The North wind 58 hull and deck are fashioned using a well-executed fiber-rein-forced-plastic (FPR) sandwich-construction technique whereby the foam core is vacuum-bagged into place.
Publication Name: Cruising World
Subject: Sports and fitness
ISSN: 0098-3519
Year: 2004
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