Endeavour Yacht Corporation

The reworked design was called the Endeavour 32 and about 600 examples were produced, starting in 1975, giving the company an early market success.

It was also modified by Robbins, by adding 3 ft (0.91 m) to the middle of the boat and it became the basis for the 1977 Endeavour 37, which was produced in sloop, cutter and yawl configurations.

These three designs were all optimized for sailing in the waters of the Florida Keys and the Bahama Islands and emphasized shoal drafts over good windward performance.

Construction was all of fiberglass woven roving and multi-directional chopped strand fiber (MCSF), with polyester resin and plywood for cores.

Construction moved to Klegecell, a closed-cell type of polyvinyl foam core, with multi-axial steel reinforced grids to improve hull stiffness.

Construction was changed using end-grain balsa wood in the hulls above the waterline areas and plywood for more stressed parts of the boats, with polyurethane foam and triaxial fiberglass.

[1][2][3][4][5] Original founder John Brooks was killed at his home in St Petersburg, Florida on 24 April 1996 in an apparent robbery attempt.