Talk:Santa Cruz Yachts

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Need references

If there have been articles published in newspapers or magazines about this company, please add those articles here under "References". If possible, include a link to those articles. If the articles are not available online, include a full bibliographic citation.

You should save the text of the article to a backup on your own computer in case a Wikipedia editor deletes it. --TruthbringerToronto (Talk | contribs) 22:40, 22 October 2006 (UTC)[reply]

More References

Per the suggestion by TruthbringerToronto, I've refferenced this article to 5 more sources including online magazine articles and some new services.

More on the early days?

I understand that the title of this article is Santa Cruz Yachts, but it is a bit confusing in that it merges the history of the company (ies) between the current company making SC 52/53 and the original "chicken coop" company that built Merlin and the SC27. When the original Bill Lee Yachts declared bankruptcy and the new owners purchased the assets, I think that was important enough to make a clear division between those periods of ownership.

Also, I have either begun or editted the Moore 24 and Olson 30 articles, and I wonder if we should be creating an article-per-boat or an article-per-builder? The answer is probably to have a hierarchy with information on the builder in one article with links to the boat models.

Thanks,

Chuck Hawley 17:24, 27 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]