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Whether it's dreams of seeing the green flash, sailing the South Pacific or just sailing around your local waters, these spacious and capable cruisers can get you there!
Here is a little bit about the genealogy of the Bayliner Buccaneer as best I could find out........
Bayliner Marine Corp. traces it's roots back to 1955, when J. Orin Edson went into the boat selling business in Seattle. The company he initially founded, Advanced Outboard, was a leading retail dealer for Mercury Marine outboards and several pleasure craft lines including boats from Owens, Reinell, Sea Ray and Bayliner...a regional builder of plywood runabouts.Edson's company was soon selling as many boats as his suppliers could provide. In order to ensure a steady supply of quality boats to sell, Edson purchased the Bayliner name and began building boats himself. In 1965, working with Puget Plastics, the new Bayliner produced its first two models of fiberglass runabouts. Soon, Bayliner began selling its expanding line of boats through other dealers. By the early 1970's, the line included runabouts, cuddy cabins and cruisers up to 27 feet. US Yachts were manufactured and marketed by Bayliner, which by them was the worlds leading manufacturer of fiberglass boats.
The US 29 and US 33 were originally Doug Peterson designs. Bayliner's design pool took these very specialized racing boats and put cruising accommodations in them. US Yachts also made smaller boats. These were the US 21, US 25 and the US 27. They provided good value for the dollar, and it is unfortunate that so many sailors heard that they were from Bayliner and automatically dismissed them as poor sailing boats. While Bayliner did in fact have some quality control issues in the late '70's, the Buccaneers were always intended as a sailboat for the masses, they were built and priced accordingly. (Personal opinion here, by Jollymon, Hunter has thrived on a similar concept. Their entry level boats are not built to cross oceans and the interiors are basic modular pan-in-hull types with the concept of keeping costs in mind. They are not the absolute best boat that can be built today, but they are a compromise between price and design. If your doing low risk sailing, near coastal or sheltered lake, ect., do you need a boat built like an Island Packet?) Several designs were sold to Pearson which made both power and sail at one time. US Yachts was sold as the sailing industry declined and in 1982 their power boat line had come out with the most successful boat in history, the Capri sport boat line. The concept of standardizing the features offered on new boats and adding their own brand of trailers and motors to cut production costs in order to offer lower retail prices to consumers. Bayliner needed manufacturing space and the Buccaneer and US Yacht line was sold as a result.
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