Ahoy and Welcome to Do It Yourself (DIY) Sailor portal. You've landed on the US Yacht / Bayliner sailboat owners unofficial web site, not that there's official one out there. Here you will find an exclusively 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 these models 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. Mahalo! -Cap'n Chris and Brian
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After many hours spent cursing at two domestic-use sewing machines while attempting to sew Sunbrella, I decided I needed a much beefier machine. Something that could sew through multiple layers of Sunbrella, canvas, leather, and vinyl. Something that would reduce my swearing while working on boat projects. Something that would not cost too many 'Boat Bucks". Hence, I chose the Sailrite LSZ (because if you're going to go all out, the machine better have a zig-zag stitch.) I wanted one right away, but choose to wait to purchase it at my annual wallet-depleting event, aka Strictly Sail.I purchased the "make it loaded" package for the heavy-duty flywheel and binding attachment. I was peeved that the Sailrite peeps did not have a shiny new one for me to take him right then and there.
I own a 1981 US Yachts 30' sailboat. United Sailing Yachts was a subsidiary of Bayliner, but the building quality was far superior. Hence, US Yachts are have been attached with the "stigma" of being a Bucc, even though they really aren't. My boat is a Doug Peterson design (racer/cruiser), and was pretty solidly built. All US Yachts owners will agree- they are damn solid boats, sail like a dream, and not one has ever had a bottom blister. The mold to the US 30 was sold to Pearson (after Bayliner axed production of sailboats so they could focus on power boats, like the Capri), and was produced as the 303 Triton. US Yachts look nothing like Buccs.
as owned us for several years. This site was started as a project to compile information about the 1981-1983 run of the United Sailing (US) Yachts line of Sailboats as well as the Buccs as they are related. Yes, they were built by (gulp!) Bayliner, but they are a very hardy line of sailboats usually in need of some much needed DIY TLC.
