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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 Watch the the intro video.

Bayliner founder, J. Orin Edson

Monday, 05 October 2009 14:30 Brian DIY Sailor Wiki - Other Articles

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 14:30

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Interactive photo gallery. See many pictures at once. Right click to go full screen! Link

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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US Yachts Technical Manual (All Models)	[Thanks Capn' Al!!!]	10191 Kb

Last Updated on Thursday, 10 December 2009 13:28

News

30Mar10: Migrated site over to a new server and backed up site.

08DEC09: Upgraded server backend and message board. Also backed up the site.

22Aug09: Website SQL database crashed and I was unable to recover it. I had to resort to a backup I made about a month ago :( and we lost a few weeks of data.

16Jul09: Added Columbia Sailboats section to the main menu.

11Jul09: Vacation days! We'll were forced to take a few vacation days this year. The two choices were to pull the boat out of the water and do some maintenance or go on a cruise... Well, we'll be living it up in St. Maartin for a few.. then back to the boat. Feeling like a bad boat owner.. but blackjack and room service will be nice!

02Jul09: Happy 4th!!! Well, the site was down for a few weeks... I was on a 5 day trip to Africa that turned into 5 weeks. We lost power to the server and I couldn't fix it remotely. All is good now!

19May09: Look for updates from Cap'n Frost's adventures: Link

27Mar09: BoatersWorld chain is going out of business. Upgraded message board to a new version and search plugins for it.

25Mar09: Added extra security to the registration page to deture spam bots.

20Mar09: Added new poll and Buccaneer original manuals that are searchable: Link

19MAR09: Email system now working. New poll added to the front page.

09MAR09: Added Most read articles to the left column of the front page. Also added article rating system.

08MAR09: Added an interactive photo gallery Link. We had a major database failure on the web server but were able to recover it!

05MAR09: There is a new Facebook Buccaneer group (see DIY Wiki/Links). Added Tampa Bay sailing map under DIY Wiki/Sailing Destinations. Link

01MAR09: Added Triton Sailboats section to the main menu.

21FEB09: Added US35 information page to the wiki. Uploaded Buccaneer brochure and US 35 brochure. Thanks,Cap' Al

19FEB09: New Bayliner Buccs Yahoo message board up. Link

15FEB09: Added featured photos to the front page. Added MSN Bucc archive. Message board is working, however the pics seam to be dead.

11FEB09: Added a new poll

10JAN09: Added Bayliner Buccaneer section to the message boards.

03JAN09: Server was off line last night to run backups. Updated the server with a Drobo sporting four 1.5TB Drives. Yes I'm a geek!

Capn Chris has written a full review of her new Sailrite sewing machine. Posted here in the wiki.

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