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  1. Windward Passage: The Making of a Legend

    It was the legendary Alan Gurney-designed 73-footer Windward Passage, and as a 9 year old boy, Hank remembers it as the coolest thing ever, particularly as a boat of that size in those days was ...

  2. Book Review: Windward Passage, A Maxi Yacht in Her Sixth Decade

    A Maxi Yacht in Her Sixth Decade. By Randall Peffer, Steve Jost, Ronald Geisman. WoodenBoat, $75.00. Few world class racing boats have had such improbable beginnings as Windward Passage —conceived by a somewhat renegade logger-entrepreneur-sailor, drawn by an untested young designer, built by a scrum of footloose "sailorboys" out of cold ...

  3. World's coolest yachts: Windward Passage

    Sailing across the Atlantic; Expertise. ... and she can be considered the first modern maxi yacht." Windward Passage was designed by the late Alan Gurney as an ocean racing record breaker for ...

  4. LEN BOSE YACHT SALES: Notes from my tour of Windward Passage:

    LEN BOSE YACHT SALES: Notes from my tour of Windward Passage: Len Bose is a yachting enthusiast, yacht broker, and harbor columnist for Stu News Newport. Specializing in fitting the proper vessel for your needs. Cruising and Racing Sailboats , Down East Style Power & Pre-owned Duffy Electric Boats. Please contact me at (714) 931-6710 or ...

  5. Sailing to the Rio Dulce on the Windward Passage: Why ...

    The Windward Passage or the Shorter Route from Florida. From Florida, the route to Guatemala can be done in under 800 nautical miles. From Great Inagua, the southern most tip of the Bahamas, it's closer to 1400 miles. And that's not all of it, you also have to get to great Inagua, which involves as least 2 overnighters, one from the ...

  6. WINDWARD PASSAGE

    The maxi-yacht WINDWARD PASSAGE began her ocean-racing career soon after her launching in 1967. She was immediately successful, taking line honors in some of the world's major events. "PASSAGE," as she is affectionately called, is seen here soon after the start of the 1975 Sydney-Hobart Race. "No maxi ever built can match WINDWARD PASSAGE ...

  7. VIDEO: The Building of Windward Passage

    An interview with Alister McIntosh about when he helped build the legendary Alan Gurney-designed 73-footer Windward Passage on the beaches of Freeport, Grand Bahamas. Video uploaded Apr 11, 2021 ...

  8. Windward Passage: World's coolest yachts >> Scuttlebutt Sailing News

    "For a long time she was the fastest boat in real time in the SORC regattas - ie the world's fastest boat - and she can be considered the first modern maxi yacht." Windward Passage was ...

  9. RB Sailing: Windward Passage (Gurney Maxi)

    Windward Passage was one of the best-known Maxi yachts of the IOR period, and greatly admired for her longevity that spanned much this era, thanks to continual upgrades and the age allowance provisions of the rule. Windward Passage was designed by Alan P Gurney for Robert Johnson of the New York Yacht Club, to replace his earlier yacht Ticonderoga, and the ocean racer was built by Grand Bahama ...

  10. Windward Passage

    Windward Passage (French: Passage au Vent; Spanish: Paso de los Vientos) is a strait in the Caribbean Sea, between the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola.The strait specifically lies between the easternmost region of Cuba and the northwest of Haiti. [1] 80 km (50 mi) wide, the Windward Passage has a threshold depth of 1,700 m (5,600 ft).With Navassa Island on its southern approach, it connects the ...

  11. Windward Passage

    You'd be forgiven for assuming that Windward Passage is a traditional trawler style passage maker when looking at her robust and purposeful appearance. Howe...

  12. The Building of Windward Passage

    An interview with Alister McIntosh about when he helped build Windward Passage

  13. Info on Sailing the Windward Passage

    Windward Passage can have a gap wind effect and sea state seems more irregular. When we sailed thru, systemic winds outside were about 25 kts, increased to 30+ in the WP. Just as I was thinking how nice it would be to visit Cuba again, we were checked out by a Coastie 'copter. Big Brother is watching.

  14. Windward Passage

    Catalog; For You; SAIL. Windward Passage A Maxi Yacht in Her Sixth Decade 2023-11-07 - . Few world class racing boats have had such improbable beginnings as Windward Passage—conceived by a somewhat renegade logger-entreprene­ur-sailor, drawn by an untested young designer, built by a scrum of footloose "sailorboys" out of cold-molded spruce on the edge of a Bahamian harbor under not much ...

  15. The Harbor Report: A Passage to a favorite yacht

    If you would like to see the interior of Windward Passage and learn more about the boat, go to my blog at lenboseyachts.blogspot.com. Sea ya. LEN BOSE is an experienced boater, yacht broker and ...

  16. 77 Years Later, Yacht Repeats Win in Trans-Pacific Race

    Racing classic wooden yachts is not unusual, but the sailing is often restricted to coastal day racing around buoys. ... Disney said he had considered racing the wooden maxi yacht Windward Passage ...

  17. Transpacific Yacht Club

    The 1973 running of the great Transpacific Yacht Club Race from Los Angeles to Honolulu will be remembered for what old salts agree was the most exciting elapsed time finish since the races started in 1906. RAGTIME, a 62-foot sloop with six co-skippers aboard, nosed out record-holder WINDWARD PASSAGE by a mere 4 minutes and 31 seconds at the ...

  18. Windward Passage: A Maxi-yacht in Her Sixth Decade

    Conceived by a lumberman-sailor, drawn by a young and then-untested designer, and built of spruce on a Bahamian beach in 1968, the 73' ocean-racing maxi-yacht WINDWARD PASSAGE had an improbable rise to stardom during her twenty-year racing career. When he first laid eyes on her soon after her completion, the legendary designer Olin Stephens ...

  19. World's coolest yachts: Windward Passage

    "For a long time she was the fastest boat in real time in the SORC regattas - ie the world's fastest boat - and she can be considered the first modern maxi yacht." Windward Passage was designed by the late Alan Gurney as an ocean racing record breaker for lumber tycoon Robert Johnson and built in laminated wood in 1968.

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