Kiaya Abernathy, aka Magick Mountain Mama, will stop by WTJU October 24 to kick off Around This Town with a live session. Kiaya is currently touring behind her new album, November Summer, produced by Steve Van Dam of the band "e:".
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ORENDA, née COFFEE GRINDER, is at the same time both a work of art and a full-on sailing machine. She turns heads whether at the yacht club or at sea passing the rest of the fleet. She was Vic Carpenter’s personal yacht until the 1990’s when the present owner bought her and had the famed Bruckmann Yachts complete the interior in 2002. She is pure artistry and function above and below decks. The hull is cold-molded carvel planked cedar with Honduras mahogany outer skin. The keelson is mahogany, the spars are laminated sitka spruce, and the keel is stainless steel filled with lead. Below decks the cedar and holly floors, along with the mixture of ebony, mahogany, cedar and spruce structure, create a tasteful balance between light and dark. Her builder, Vic Carpenter, was the pioneer of wood/epoxy boats. His staff included Jan Gougeon of West System Epoxy and Steve Van Dam of Van Dam Custom Boats. Vic Carpenter also built ORENDA’s sistership - GOLDEN GOOSE for Gor
Q&A with Michael Peters
Founder, Michael Peters Yacht Design
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Nov 27, 2020
Michael Peters is among the most renowned yacht designers working today, with hundreds of designs in a career that dates back to the early 1970s. His studio, Michael Peters Yacht Design, has worked with some of the biggest names in the industry, including Azimut, Bertram, Cabo, Chris-Craft, Hinckley and Viking’s Valhalla Boatworks. Peters also has designed one-of-a-kind vessels with the master craftspeople of Brooklin Boat Yard and Van Dam Boats.
Today, Peters splits his time between his childhood stomping grounds of California’s Catalina Island and Sarasota, Fla., where his studio is located, along with a Bertram 25 that he’s “restored actually a couple times” during the 30 years it’s been on a mooring near his home.