Steve Colgate, founder and Chairman of Offshore Sailing School, is pleased to announce that, after a long search for a new builder for the popular Colgate 26 keelboat, Tartan Yachts of Painesville, Ohio has been selected.<\/p>\n
Known as \u201cA Boat for All Reasons,\u201d the Colgate 26 is designed by renowned naval architect Jim Taylor and Olympic and America\u2019s Cup sailor Steve Colgate who mandated that it be fast, fun, safe and unsinkable with big boat characteristics that make it easy to transition to larger boats.<\/p>\n
The Colgate 26 was awarded Boat of the Year in the Pocket Cruiser Division by Cruising World magazine the year it debuted. A great boat for round the buoy racing, the Colgate 26 is also popular for individual and family daysailing and is used for teaching sailing fundamentals and racing techniques at many sailing schools including Offshore Sailing School. The US Naval Academy has 42 Colgate 26s, which they call the Navy 26, in its fleet.<\/p>\n
\u201cOwners rave about how easy it is to care for this boat and how much fun it is to sail,\u201d says Steve Colgate. \u201cIt\u2019s unusual for a customer to tell a vendor his advertising is absolutely true,\u201d wrote Joe Silverberg of Madison, Wisconsin. \u201cThe Colgate 26 is a joy to sail! It handles well in all wind and wave conditions, and all points of sail. It\u2019s a comfortable, stable, easy to sail daysailer and a fast sophisticated racer,\u201d Silverberg continued.<\/p>\n
A new Colgate 26 built by Tartan Yachts can be delivered four months after order is placed, with an introductory ready-to-sail price of $87,500, including main, jib and spinnaker. There are also optional extras available including a new asymmetrical sail kit.<\/p>\n
Offshore Sailing School, headquartered in Ft. Myers, FL, was founded in 1964 by Olympian, America\u2019s Cup Sailor and National Sailing Hall of Fame Inductee, Steve Colgate. The school sells the Colgate 26 and provides a full range of sailing and boating instruction with US Sailing certification \u2013 from beginning sailing and cruising to racing, advanced cruising, and passage making \u2013 at six locations in Florida and the British Virgin Islands. For hi-res images and more information visit Colgate26.com<\/a> and contact Steve Colgate at 239-218-0471, Steve@OffshoreSailing.com.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Steve Colgate, founder and Chairman of Offshore Sailing School, is pleased to announce that, after a long search for a new builder for the popular Colgate 26 keelboat, Tartan Yachts of Painesville, Ohio has been selected. Known as \u201cA Boat for All Reasons,\u201d the Colgate 26 is designed by renowned naval architect Jim Taylor and Olympic and America\u2019s Cup sailor Steve Colgate who mandated that it be fast, fun, safe and unsinkable with big boat characteristics that make it easy to transition to larger boats. The Colgate 26 was awarded Boat of the Year in the Pocket Cruiser Division by Cruising World magazine the year it debuted. A great boat for round the buoy racing, the Colgate 26 is also popular for individual and family daysailing and is used for teaching sailing fundamentals and racing techniques at many sailing schools including Offshore Sailing School. The US Naval Academy has 42 Colgate 26s, which they call the Navy 26, in its fleet. \u201cOwners rave about how easy it is to care for this boat and how much fun it is to sail,\u201d says Steve Colgate. \u201cIt\u2019s unusual for a customer to tell a vendor his advertising is absolutely true,\u201d wrote Joe …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":42623,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42619"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42619"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42624,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42619\/revisions\/42624"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bwsailing.com\/cc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}