Authors: Anthony Dalton
ISBN-13: 9780760321706, ISBN-10: 0760321701
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: MBI Publishing Company
Date Published: October 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
In 1975 Rod Johnstone finally decided to build the boat he’d been planning since completing design correspondence school 10 years earlier. Thirty years later, the J/24, the boat based on that first garage-built vessel is the most popular recreational offshore keelboat in the world. The story of J/Boats’ success, as inspiring as it is unlikely, unfolds for the first time in this illustrated history, which tells how Rod and his brother Bob turned one homebuilt boat and a $20,000 investment into the company that dominates the performance-oriented sailboat market today.
Acknowledgments | 6 | |
Introduction | 7 | |
1 | Introducing Ragtime | 10 |
2 | A Synergistic Relationship | 22 |
3 | The Incomparable J/24 | 34 |
4 | New Models for the 1980s | 56 |
5 | Under New Management | 82 |
6 | Cruising, Near and Far | 100 |
7 | Reaching New Heights | 130 |
Appendix | Chronological History of J/Boats Designs | 158 |
Index | 160 |