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Paceship Yachts

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Atlantic Bridge's fibreglass operations were moved into the former Paceship building and the company was renamed ABCO Plastics Limited, while yacht building ceased. ABCO Plastics was sold in 1988 and renamed ABCO Industries Limited. The former factory location is now owned by Reinforced Plastics
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The Industrial Shipping Company Limited of Nova Scotia (ISC) produced plywood boats for Mahone Bay Plycraft in its Mahone Bay factory, until the building burned down in 1956. The factory was rebuilt and plywood boat construction restarted, but it quickly shifted to building boats from a then-new
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By 1962 the sailboats were produced under the Paceship name and it became a division of ISC. The Paceship division was bought out in 1965 by the Atlantic Bridge Company Limited of Nova Scotia (ABCO), a company that also built powerboats.
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for amateur construction, as well as completed boats. These were marketed under various brand names.
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sailboats. Paceship Yachts operated as a division of AMF from 1975 until 1981. The
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impacted sailboat sales and, as a result, AMF sold the PY26 design and tooling to
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Summary of sailboats built by Paceship (year first built by any manufacturer):
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The company's predecessor was the Mahone Bay Plycraft Company Ltd, which sold
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in 1981. Tanzer changed the design to a deck-stepped mast and sold it as the
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In 1975 Paceship Yachts and its tooling were sold to
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Privately held company
Boat building
Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
Canada
Sailboats
Canadian
American
boat builder
Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia
fiberglass
sailboats
plywood
kits

Chance 32/28
fibreglass
powerboats
American Machine and Foundry
conglomerate
Connecticut
Paceship PY23
PY26
early 1980s recession
Tanzer Industries
Tanzer 27

Paceship 20

Paceship 23

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