has anyone heard of a Cal-Pearson (1968)

[knoxtn]

I am Looking at a 34 cal-pearson?????? I know Cals, and I know Pearson....Did designer Lapworth designed both? And in 1968 could that have been the very start of either manufacture? Was Jensen in this also? help!

[Bardo]

There is an '80-ish Cal Pearson on YW right now, so they must have been going for awhile.

[JohnRPollard]

I think this thread belongs over in the "Buying a Boat" forum. Could the moderators possibly move it? Thanks.

[JimsCAL]

A few years after Cal and Pearson (separate companies) went out of business, some of their designs were bought by a new start-up company which called itself Cal-Pearson. They didn't last long.

[SailorMitch]

Pearson Yachts started in the late '50's and went under in 1991. By 1968 Bill Shaw was aboard as the chief designer. I know of no connection between Cal and Pearson in that period of time. Pearson did buy the molds and trade names for Cal and O'Day in the late 80's and probably made a few boats before the company was sold at auction in '91. Some investors did try to start a company they called Cal-Pearson in the mid-90's and did make maybe a dozen boats. Then they went belly up, too -- probably in 1997 or 1998. Everett Pearson then bought the name Pearson Yachts and TPI began making the True North powerboats. TPI of course made sailboats for a number of companies over the years.