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If youre looking for an inexpensive 30-footer from the 1970s with pretty lines that can double nicely as either the family escape pod or...
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This is the only sailboat at most boat shows that will remain afloat even with a bucket-sized hole in the bottom. The design team,...
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The Columbia 30 is being constructed and marketed by Columbia Yachts under the direction of Vince Valdes, son of Dick Valdes, who formed the...
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When Nick Hake, a graduate of the Milwaukee School of Engineering, decided that he'd had enough midwestern winters, he moved to Florida. Despite his...
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