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What’s in a Name?

Soundings • NOVEMBER 2025 VOL. LXIII, NO. 3

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Take It Up a Notch • LYMAN-MORSE ELEVATES THE ELEGANT HOOD 35 LM

A Clear Message • GOOD COMMUNICATION IS CRITICAL ON A BOAT, WHERE THE SAFETY OF PASSENGERS DEPENDS ON IT

Downeast Devotee • THIS 29-FOOT H&H OSMOND BEAL IS A DREAM RIDE FOR ITS OWNER

MEMORIES OF OSMOND BEAL

My First Rescue • WHEN I SAW TWO BOATERS IN REAL TROUBLE, I DID WHAT THE PROS TEACH YOU NEVER TO DO

Formula 360 CBR • A NEXT-GENERATION BOWRIDER FOR THOSE WHO TAKE DAYBOATING VERY SERIOUSLY

Black Watch 33

BUILT TO LAST • DESIGNED FOR PURPOSE, PRACTICALITY AND QUIET LUXURY, THE GRAND BANKS 62 IS DESTINED TO BE A CLASSIC

GOING THE DISTANCE • These owners are all over the world on big adventures, enjoying their passagemaking boats and making plans to go farther in the future

Time Capsule Cruise • The Thousand Islands are a good match for a fascination with the GIlded Age and golden boating destinations

A Mother of Boats • The doyenne of Port Townsend’s yacht finishers is doing what she can to protect not only wooden boats, but also the future of her trade

Steamship in the Sound

Breaking the Ice • THE USCG’S BAY-CLASS TUGBOATS CLEARED A PATH FOR SHIPPING TRAFFIC ON THE GREAT LAKES