Long-Term Love
Author:
R. Brown
Named after a famous solo sailor, this 1933 cutter still dazzles and racks up the miles
A stroll on the docks is always more than that. It’s therapy, it’s research and often there’s that nudge of inspiration. And every now and then the hippocampus twitches with pangs of envy, especially when staring at a vessel that makes the jaw go slack, like the cutter
Vito Dumas that lives on A-Dock at Boat Haven in Port Townsend, Washington.
Easy on the eye and full of sensible details, her low freeboard and deckhouse blend perfectly with her elegant sheer, just as one might expect from designs by William Atkin or Colin Archer, but