The Dolphin 24 Sailboat is a Sparkman & Stephens Design #1497, 24 foot keel/centerboad sloop. Approximately 300 were built between 1960 and 1978 by several builders. This article is based on the www.dolphin24.org website, where a detailed history of this boat resides, along with Technical, Restoration, Stories and Rosters Sections.
Just over fifty years ago, on December 8, 1958 Olin Stephens dictated an internal memo to his technical staff – Bill...
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The Dolphin 24 Sailboat is a Sparkman & Stephens Design #1497, 24 foot keel/centerboad sloop. Approximately 300 were built between 1960 and 1978 by several builders. This article is based on the www.dolphin24.org website, where a detailed history of this boat resides, along with Technical, Restoration, Stories and Rosters Sections.
Just over fifty years ago, on December 8, 1958 Olin Stephens dictated an internal memo to his technical staff – Bill Shaw, Drake Sparkman, Rod Stephens and Gil Wyland, Sparkman & Stephens' chief engineer. That memo describes a phone conversation he had with George O'Day. We call this memo the Dolphin 24 Birth Certificate. We found it as a tissue carbon copy in the back of the Dolphin 24 technical file at S&S;’s offices on Fifth Ave in New York.
The mid 1950s to mid 1960s was when fiberglass made its often painful way on to the off shore sailboat scene. Entrepreneurs with little cash, big dreams and a rudimentary business plan saw the potential for a large...
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