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Pacific Seacraft
Pacific Seacraft Corporation is a Washington, North Carolina based sailboat manufacturer specializing in fiberglass monohull cruising boats. Pacific Seacraft is best known for producing the Crealock line of sailboats. These are heavy, overbuilt offshore cruising designs designed by William Crealock. Crealocks are distinctive due to their overhanging 'canoe' sterns and traditional lines. Their sailboats have been featured in both volumes of Ferenc Máté's ''The World's Best Sailboats'', and Fortune Magazine twice selected Pacific Seacraft as a producer of America's 100 best products.Henkel, Steve: ''The Sailor's Book of Small Cruising Sailboats'', page 363. International Marine/McGraw-Hill, 2010. History The company was founded by Mike Howard and Henry Mohrschladt in 1975, with Mohrschladt as the first president. The first design produced was Mohrschladt's Pacific Seacraft 25. The company was later purchased by Singmarine Industries, a subsidiary of the Singapore-based Keppel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferenc Máté
Ferenc Máté (born 1945, in Hungarian Transylvania) grew up in Budapest. He escaped Hungary with his mother after the crushing of the 1956 revolution by Soviet tanks. He graduated from the University of British Columbia, and worked on a railroad extra-gang, on tugboats, and as boat-builder, then became photographer, book editor, and writer. He has lived in Vancouver, Laguna Beach, Whistler Mountain, New York City, Paris, and Rome, and now resides on a wine estate in Tuscany with his wife, painter and winemaker Candace Máté, and their son, Peter. For much of their first twenty years together, Máté and his wife lived on sailboats, traveling the world, photographing and occasionally publishing books on sailing. His first book, From a Bare Hull, written when he was 28, was cited by Yachting Magazine as "worthy of a much older man with a lifetime of boat-building experiences." It is still considered one of the best books on boat-building ever written. In addition to sailing book ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |