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We here at Island Packet Yachts have all become very familiar with stability and seakeeping issues, starting with Bob Johnson's decade-long effort in the 1990s as the sole U.S. sailing industry representative partici­pating in the creation of new international standards for sailing yacht stability.

March 2022 Over the course of the past four plus years administering Island Packet Ancestry, plus a 29 year history of working at the IP factory, I have distilled and...

MARCH 2019 SPRING HAS SPRUNG and sailors north of the Mason-Dixon line are busying themselves with final plans for getting their boats wet again, and working off the balance of the winter...

NOVEMBER 2018 The holidays are upon us and it’s a time of giving, sharing and enjoying time with family and friends.  My nearly three decades of working at Island Packet...