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Tim Murphy is an award-winning marine author and editor. Having spent his teenage years living aboard a William Garden-designed CT-41 ketch with his family cruising the Gulf coast and Bahamas, he crewed aboard the 130-foot brigantine Young America for six months at age 16 between Narragansett Bay to Key West. With a master’s degree in journalism and a 100-ton US Coast Guard Master’s license, he served as Cruising World staff editor for 15 years, then as Editor-at-Large since 2006. For the last 20 years he has directed or judged CW’s Boat of the Year event, sailing more than 500 new boats along the way. He is the coauthor of Fundamentals of Marine Service Technology (American Boat & Yacht Council, 2012), a marine-trades textbook for secondary and post-secondary students, as well as several certification study guides in the marine trades. He sails Billy Pilgrim, a Passport 40 based in Gloucester, Massachusetts.

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‘The Mayan stands for the good things in my life — health, sanity, and freedom — all the positive values’ — David Crosby

Who was Mayan? Mayan was Design No. 356B, which John Alden’s office in Boston had resurrected in 1946 for a WWII Navy captain named Charles Allen from a 1928 design. She was 60 feet on deck, 62 feet to the head of the mainmast, intended to transit the Intracoastal Waterway between New York and Florida, then cross over to the Bahamas and the Caribbean. Charles’s son Paul Allen led the team that built her in six months near Belize City, using Honduran mahogany for the frames, yellow pine for the planking, and teak for the decks. A lifting centerboard kept her draft to 4½ feet.

Jimmy Buffett was a sailor, surfer, and fisherman who brought an enriching life on the water into our ears, into our hearts, and into our souls like nobody else on the public stage. He made people happy.