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Ahoy and Welcome to Do It Yourself (DIY) Sailor portal.  You've landed on the US Yacht, Bayliner Buccaneer, Triton, and Corinthian sailboat owners unofficial web site, not that there's official one out there. Here you will find an exclusively owner driven community with information regarding these fine old sailboats.  You can also find DIY owner projects, upkeep, modifications, maintenance, and anything else the DIY Sailor can think of.

After reaching the end of the internet, there was little to find about these models of sailboats. This is a user centric wiki project. The content here is entirely built by the owners to help out fellow owners or wanna be owners. Please have a look around and help build the site. May you have dirty fingernails, fair winds, and following seas.  Mahalo!    -Cap'n Chris and Brian

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Cardboard Regatta 2009

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all that work and all we got was a stinkin' paddle!

by Airman 1st Class Katherine Holt

6th Air Mobility Wing Public Affairs

Five pieces of 4x8 cardboard, two rolls of duct tape, two box cutters, and three hours was all participants in MacDill’s Outdoor and Recreation’s Annual Cardboard Boat Regatta had to build a boat at the base beach Nov. 20.

Five-man teams were scattered up and down the shoreline working tirelessly on their boat designs. Most teams were hoping for a win, others hoped for a miracle.

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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 20:30
 

Bayliner founder, J. Orin Edson

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A brief history of Bayliner Marine Corp. and it's founder and entrepreneur, J. Orin Edson.

Mr Edson was born in 1932.  His father was an engineer.  Edson's first boat was 12ft and built out of plywood.  He joined the Army and spent three years in the Signal Corps.  In 1955, he started in the marine business.  He opened an outboard engine repair shop in Puget Sound, Seattle, WA called Advanced Outboard Marine.  He began dabbling with building boats in 1961.  The next big move was in 1965, when he acquired a few hull molds from a company called Bayliner.  He then purchased the Bayliner name for $100 from Al Koffel.  Bayliner went on to be the world's largest boat manufacturing company.  Bayliner began building sailboats in 1974 when gas prices soared.  In 1986, Bayliner had pumped out over 43,000 boats!  Bayliner was sold to the Brunswick corporation in 1986 for around $470 million.  Later, Mr. Edson owned 96 percent of Wesport Shipyards in Port Angeles, Westpot, and Hoquiam, WA.  He has also been on Forbes 400 richest Americans list and is rumored to have a 165' boat and flies helicopters as a hobby.

Last Updated on Monday, 05 October 2009 09:30
 

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Thanks again, Capn' Al, below is a US Yachts manual he sent us to scan and post.. 1st time on the internet.. Yes, I know I'm about 6 months behind on working on this.. I'll send it back soon.. I promise. Thanks again for your patience....

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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 08:28
 
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About Us

We (Capt. Chris and Brian) are the proud owners of a previously neglected 1981 Doug Peterson designed US30.  We've brought her back from near extinction with lots of blood, sweat, tears and $$.  She, "Wu-Wei" hWu-Weias owned us for several years.  This site was started as a project  to compile information about the 1981-1983 run of the United Sailing (US) Yachts line of Sailboats as well as the Buccs as they are related. Yes, they were built by (gulp!)  Bayliner, but they are a very hardy line of sailboats usually in need of some much needed DIY TLC.

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