The Best Canadian Sailboat You've Never Heard Of | Sailing Truth Show

📕 GET THE BOOK: Be The Captain. Winner of the 2026 Eric Hoffer Award. 25 years of offshore decisions in one book → https://bethecaptain.com 🔓 FREE: The Captain's Locker. Printable watch schedules, pre-departure checklists, delivery tools → https://bethecaptain.com/locker She's a 1996 Gozzard 44, built by one family in a small Ontario shop that's been doing it by hand for over 40 years, and she's one of the best bluewater boats almost nobody talks about. In this video I'll show you exactly why I'd put her up against cruisers costing twice as much. Most of the great names you grew up admiring got bought, gutted, or moved offshore. Gozzard didn't. Ted Gozzard walked away from a production yard in 1981 to build the opposite: low-volume, semi-custom, roughly nine months a boat, with the owner in the shop watching their own hull come together. I break down what that actually buys you, the inside-out design, the nearly two-inch hull, the engineering that makes her track and take a sea, and why a boat built this way holds value and goes anywhere while the boat-show fleet depreciates the second it splashes. We'll walk this specific 44 from bow to transom, and at the end I'll give you the honest read: who this boat is right for, who should walk, and how to tell a builder that meant it from one that was flipping hulls. ⛵ THE LISTING: https://www.yachtworld.com/yacht/1996... 🎟️ Sailing Truth Show live every Saturday, 3PM Eastern🎟️ 🎁 LIVE BOOK GIVEAWAY every 30 minutes. Be here, be in the chat, win a signed copy. 💬 DROP A LISTING: paste a YachtWorld or boats.com link in the chat, and I'll work it live. ⚓ Be The Captain comes with $300 in PredictWind + Defender savings. Grab it here → https://bethecaptain.com LIVE every Saturday, 3 PM Eastern. Presentation, live Q&A, and a book every 30 minutes. #SailingTruth #Gozzard #BoatBuying #BluewaterSailing #SailingZingaro