TheLippincottLegacy
At 77, Howard Lippincott is just starting to show his age. Tall and slender, he slightly favors one lag as he walks and admits that years of breathing red cedar dust from his wooden boatbuilding days are taking a toll on his asthma. He’s long since retried and has shifted from racing one-designs to cruising a 36-footer. There’s little outward evidence that this is the man who, with his brother Bob, formed the backbone of Lippincott Boatworks and helped usher in the modern era of boatbuilding.
Read the full article from January 1997 here.
