The Sonar is a 23-foot, one-design open keelboat created by Canadian-born naval architect Bruce Kirby in 1980. Conceived to bridge […]

The Soling stands as one of the most rigorously tested, hydrodynamic, and tactically demanding open keelboats in modern naval architecture.

The Shark 24 is a seminal 24-foot (7.32 m) light-displacement fractional sloop designed in 1959 by George Hinterhoeller in Niagara-on-the-Lake,

If you look closely at how the high-performance sportboat market evolved at the turn of the millennium, you will notice

The grand prix yacht racing scene experienced a massive shift in 2006. Before this point, elite high-performance racing platforms were

If you track the evolution of high-performance one-design fleets over the past few decades, you will find that few classes

If you want to pinpoint the exact moment the modern sportboat era was born, look back to 1993. Before that

If you look closely at how the sport of sailing evolved in the late twentieth century, you can pin down

If you study the historical trajectory of modern competitive sailing, you can trace a massive shift in fleet dynamics back

In the history of twentieth-century naval architecture, the decade of the 1930s marked a sharp transition away from elite, custom