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    The Wind Catcher

    Nov 01, 2019 5 minutes
    story Justin Ratcliffe
    ‘Gerry is a genuine innovator and belongs to a fraternity of designers that is now disappearing in a world full of imitators.’
    —Naval Architect Rob Doyle

    With his scholarly spectacles, rumpled hair and unassuming demeanor, Gerry Dykstra looks more like a kindly professor than a single-handed sailor. Now retired, at least officially, he spends nearly as much time sailing the high latitudes of northern Europe as he does on dry land.

    He was literally fresh off the boat when we met at the Amsterdam office of Dykstra Naval Architects (today headed up by Managing Director Thys Nikkels), having left his 53-foot aluminum sloop in Iceland and flown home via the Arctic archipelago of Lofoten in Norway.

    “My wife, Loontje, and I have always preferred sailing in colder climates,” Dykstra

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