Excerpt from http://cc.ysu.edu/~ckrummel/mutineer/contents.htm

The Buccaneer was originally produced in the early 1970s, by Chrysler Corporation. The tooling was sold at the end of that decade to Texas Marine International, a company composed of former Chrysler management. Shortly thereafter, Starwinds, the sailboat arm of Wellcraft, bought the molds, etc. from TMI and produced the boat through the early 1980s. In 1984, they sold the molds to Gloucester Yachts, who subsequently, in 1988, sold the molds to Cardinal yachts. Cardinal, which is now producing the boats on a custom basis, is providing replacement parts to more than 5000 owners of the existing Buccaneers located around the country.

My name is Harry Sindle and I am owner of Cardinal Yachts, and am the author of this instruction manual. Formerly, since 1963,I have managed Gloucester Yachts, Lockley-Newport Boats, Newport Boats and Mobjack Manufacturing Company. I have been Buccaneer National Champion twice (1884 and 1986), in the only times that I have raced in that regatta. I have been sailing and racing since 1945 and have a list of championships of which I am quite proud, including six times Flying Dutchman North American Champion, a gold medal in the 1959 Pan American Games, and have represented this country in the 1960 Olympics. I have also won numerous regattas in the Lightning, Thistle, Comet, Jet 14, Albacore, and similar types of small sailboats. I mention this not to brag, but to put a certain authenticity on the following instructions.