June 2024
“Born to Build: Cape Dory . . . A Standard of Value”
by Andrew C. Vavolotis and James L. Nelson. ACV Boatworks, LLC, Publisher. 217 pps. $44.95.
Review by Bob Muggleston
Sailors in New England are well familiar with the many Cape Dory offerings that still, some 30 years after the company’s demise, inhabit our harbors. Many of them are designer Carl Alberg’s take on the classic Swedish Folkboat that feature long, graceful overhangs, low sheerlines, narrow beam and sweeping full keels.