Fast is fun. Lee built ultralight boats in a converted chicken coop above Santa Cruz and set a Transpac record with Merlin that stood twenty years.
- Yard
- 'The Coop', a converted chicken coop on Hilltop Road, Soquel
- Philosophy
- Ultralight displacement — often half the weight of contemporaries
- Brokerage
- Wizard Yachts, Ltd., Santa Cruz
- 1973Chutzpah — Transpac winner
- 1973Santa Cruz 27 — about 145 built
- 1977Merlin — 68-ft ULDB; Transpac monohull record for twenty years
- 1985Santa Cruz 70 — 19 built
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