Mark Pearson, son of Everett Pearson (1933-2017), represents his father as the Posthumous Inductee in the National Sailing Hall of Fame hosted by the 126 year old Seattle Yacht Club. Pearson received his Bachelor’s Degree in Economics from Brown University (class of 1955), where he was Captain of the Football Team. He got into the boat building business, building dinghies in a garage using new and untested methods of construction with fiberglass.
As one of the first U.S. builders of fiberglass sailboats, he would come to be considered one of the best production sailboat builders. The 28.5 Pearson Triton and 22.5 Pearson Ensign (among other models) were among the most popular keelboats in the 1960s in the U.S., and every J/Boat he built won Boat of the Year honors. Of the 26 boats currently in the American Sailboat Hall of Fame, five were built by Pearson: the Triton, Ensign, J/24, J/35, and the Freedom 40. In 1968, he continued his boatbuilding and fiberglass work with Tillotson-Pearson Inc. and built – among other things – wind blades, all-composite bus bodies, test track vehicles for Disney Imagineering, and J Boats, at one point building six boats a day. As co-founder of Sail America (SA), and later as a co-founder of Sailing.
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