Cradled in a barn at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains sits Eric Paulsen’s pride and joy, a 1968 Grand Banks 42. She paints a peculiar picture in her landlocked home north of Boulder, Colorado, where she has been dry-docked for the past six years as Paulsen carries out a stem to stern restoration. There’s still plenty of work in front of him, but Paulsen displays no signs of the weary carpenter: He does admit, however, to looking forward to the day when Splinters begins to cruise the waters of the Pacific Northwest.

Outer Reef’s Adventure 540
Fresh on the heels of Outer Reef’s Adventure 780 announcement,






