ABOVE CLOCKWISE FROM TOP—Devlin’s newer Surf Scoter 23 design; Chinook 21, with small diesel inboard; and a Winter Wren sailboat.


years, a tiny knack to see where the production market is not present, or not doing a direct enough job. Tose are the design and building areas where I excel and thrive. But having said that, there’s an old adage among designers that we hit on a type and style and just do larger and smaller versions for the rest of our lives. Tere is more than a bit of truth to that saying and I need to be honest in recognizing there is certainly a look about a “Devlin” design and, for better or worse, I have to live with that look.


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I have a story that might help to illustrate this idea. Years ago my grandmother was moving back to an area of Oregon where she and my grandfather had lived about 40 years previously. Grandfather had passed away and she was moving closer to one of my aunts who lived in the same town. While searching for a home to buy, with my aunt and a real-estate agent driving her around the town, my grandmother kept seeing a for sale sign on the lawn of a little yellow house, and each time they passed she would tell my aunt she wanted to stop and look at it. My aunt


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