Seeing a boat in someone's yard is not uncommon. However, when that boat is a 74 foot long, 16 foot wide steel behemoth hand-built from scratch by the owner, it begins to raise eyebrows. Doug Jackson, ...

I’d never sailed before. This wasn’t a problem, however, because we were not sailing. We were hobbling. My new boat, bought for $5,000 from a man who told us only after we’d paid that we had two days ...