Bluewater faith
Aug 09, 2019
3 minutes
WORDS AND PHOTOGRAPHS BY JAN HEIN
he yacht designer and builder Paul Johnson is a legend among self-building bluewater sailors. And his early boats were built from an abandoned church. The name Paul Erling Johnson is synonymous with Venus designs, jaunty double-ended gaff ketches both sweet and stout. He designed them in various sizes, built several, and sold and gave away countless plans. Hundreds were constructed of wood, fibreglass, ferrocement or steel, but for the most part they were built of dreams, in backyards, on shoestrings. The owner and builder were often one
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