Ahoy! Welcome to Do It Yourself (DIY) Sailor portal.  This is the US Yacht / Bayliner sailboat owners unofficial web site, not that there's official one out there. Here you will find an owner driven community with information regarding these fine old sailboats.  You can also find DIY owner projects, upkeep, modifications, maintenance, and anything else the DIY Sailor can think of.

After reaching the end of the internet, there was little to find about this run of sailboats. This is a user centric wiki project. The content here is entirely built by the owners to help out fellow owners or wanna be owners. Please have a look around and help build the site. May you have dirty fingernails, fair winds, and following seas.  -Cap'n Chris and Brian

I have spent a lot of time over the last few years working on or about Aquappella, our '81 US 25.
When we purchased her she was on the hard, in the yard of a man who thought he was clever at covering over her faults. He had repaired water damage to the sole and lower bulkheads by tacking up hardboard panneling with brass brads, and laying down linoleum with copious quantities of tile cement. Fortunately he lost interest before he did too much damage and offered the boat for sale at a fairly attractive price. Not a steal, but she was worth the asking price.

Since then, I have attempted to restore her to glory, finding as always that every job completed reveals two more that need to be addressed.

Always, as I worked my mind wandered to musings of what I have accomplished, and what it all means to me.