Charley Morgan, one of the great pioneers of fiberglass boatbuilding and design, left this world in January, bound for whatever comes next. He was 93, and reportedly passed just a few hours after his wife, Maurine, died.
Sailors of a certain age will remember, was a 31-foot plywood yawl with a keel and rudder off a Star, a mainsail off a Thistle, and a mizzen from a Penguin. With his buddy Charlie Hunt, who helped designed and build this unlikely machine, he took second in class in the 1957 St. Petersburg-Havana race.
