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| x Eric Tabarly | hydroptere | |||
| x Alain Thébault | hydroptere | |||
| x Gino Morrelli | Cheyenne | |||
| x Pete Melvin | Cheyenne | |||
| x John Illingworth | Gipsy Moth IV | |||
| x Angus Primrose | Gipsy Moth IV | |||
| x Sparkman & Stephens | Dolphin 24 Sailboat |
Sparkman & Stephens is a naval architecture and yacht brokerage firm with main offices on 5th Avenue in New York City, USA and a second office in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA. The firm performs complete design and engineering of new vessels for...
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| x Joshua Humphreys |
Joshua Humphreys (June 17, 1751 – January 12, 1838) was an influential and successful ship builder in the United States.
Humphreys was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania and died in the same place. His residence, Pont Reading, is still a private...
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| x Olin Stephens | Freedom |
Olin James Stephens II (April 13, 1908 – September 13, 2008) has been described as the best-known and most successful yacht designer of the 20th century. Stephens was born in New York, but spent his summers with his brother Rod(erick) learning to...
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| Ranger | ||||
| Intrepid | ||||
| x Starling Burgess | Enterprise | |||
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| x Nathanael Herreshoff |
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Reliance |
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff (March 18, 1848 – June 2, 1938), was an American naval architect-mechanical engineer. "Captain Nat," as he was known, revolutionized yacht design, and produced a succession of undefeated America's Cup defenders between...
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| x William Fife |
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Shamrock |
William Fife III OBE (1857-1944), also known as Wm. Fife, Jr., was the third generation of a family of Scottish yacht designers and builders.
Fife was born in the small village of Fairlie on the Firth of Clyde. His father and grandfather (both also...
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| x Bruce Farr | KZ1 |
Bruce K. Farr OBE (born 1949 in Auckland, New Zealand) is a designer of racing and cruising yachts.
Boats designed by Farr Yacht Design competed in every Whitbread Round the World Race after 1981, and won the 1986, 1990, 1994 and 1998 races. In 2001...
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| x Charles Nicholson | Velsheda | |||
| x Bill Langan | Freedom | |||
| x Ben Lexcen | Australia II |
Ben Lexcen AM (19 March 1936 – 1 May 1988) was an Australian yachtsman and marine architect. He is famous for the winged keel design applied to Australia II which, in 1983, became the first non-American yacht to win the prestigious America's Cup in...
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| x Warwick Hood | Dame Pattie | |||
| x École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne |
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Alinghi |
The École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) is one of the two Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology and is located in Lausanne, Switzerland. The EPFL is among top 90 universities in the world according to Global University Ranking and...
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The Coryphene was a clipper ship. Its existence is documented through an advertisement card in the Honeyman Collection digital library collection.
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| x Thomas Slade |
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Arrogant class ship of the line |
Sir Thomas Slade (1703/4 - 1771) was an English naval architect, most famous for designing HMS Victory, Lord Nelson's flagship at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805.
Like almost all of those who rose to the pinnacle of the design of British sailing...
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| Bellona class ship of the line | ||||
| HMS Victory | ||||
| Ramillies class ship of the line | ||||
| Albion class ship of the line | ||||
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| x Jacques-Noël Sané |
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Annibal class ship of the line |
Jacques-Noël Sané (18 February 1740 - 22 August 1831) was a French naval engineer, one of the most successful shipbuilders of the Age of Sail.
Sané studied under Duhamel du Monceau. His designs were so successful that he was nicknamed "The Naval...
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| Hortense class frigate | ||||
| Océan type 118-gun ship of the line | ||||
| Bucentaure class ship of the line | ||||
| x Sir Edward Hunt | Ganges class ship of the line | |||
| Boyne class ship of the line | ||||
| x William Bateley | Canada class ship of the line | |||
| Exeter class ship of the line | ||||
| x Sir John Williams | Royal Oak class ship of the line | |||
| Alfred class ship of the line | ||||
| x William Symonds |
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Albion class ship of the line |
Sir William Symonds (24 September 1782, Bury St Edmunds-30 March 1856, aboard the French steamship Nil in the Strait of Bonifacio, off Sardinia) was "Surveyor of the Navy" in the Royal Navy from 9 June 1832 to October 1847, and took part in the...
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| x Isaac Webb | Morris-Taney class cutter | |||
| x Bowdoin B. Crowninshield | ||||
| x Andre Cornu | International 420 Class Dinghy | |||
| x Hans Groop | H-boat |
Hans Groop, born 1932 in Vaasa is a Finnish yacht designer based in Helsinki.
He has designed more than a hundred yachts and motorboats, the most famous being the H-boat, one of the most popular yacht classes in the world.
Some of his other designs...
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| x Luedtke Brothers | L boat | |||
| x J. Laurent Giles | Jolly Boat | |||
| x Tord Sundén | IF-boat | |||
| x William Henry White | Alarm class torpedo gunboat |
Sir William Henry White (2 February 1845 – 27 February 1913) was a prolific British warship designer and Chief Constructor at the Admiralty.
He was born in Plymouth and became an apprentice at the naval dockyard there in 1859. In 1863 he obtained a...
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| x Martin Billoch | SKUD 18 | |||
| x Julian Bethwaite | SKUD 18 | |||
| x Chris Mitchell | SKUD 18 | |||
| x Iain Murray and Associates | Hobie magic 25 | |||
| x Tony Castro | SB3 |
Tony Castro, is based on the South Coast of England in Southampton and has been designing sailing and motor yachts for 25 years, with about 6,000 boats launched to date that include custom boats and One-design production models.
After leaving Ron...
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| x Carl Martens | Pirate | |||
| x Phil Morrison | Laser 2000 |
Phil Morrison (born November 1946) is a British boat designer and racer rendered notable by the success of his many designs in many classes since 1967 as well as his own distinguished yacht racing career.
He was born in Eastbourne, England.
His...
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| Wayfarer | ||||
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| x Rodney March | Dart 18 | |||
| x Frank Bethwaite | 3000 | |||
| x Derek Clark | 3000 | |||
| x Sydney Cheverton | British Moth | |||
| x Roger Hancock | Mermaid Sailing Dinghy | |||
| x Knud Olsen | OK |
Knud Olsen (b. 1919, Præstø, Denmark) is a Danish builder and designer of boats, who was the designer of one of the most popular sailing dinghies in use over the past 50 years, the OK Dinghy, which became an ISAF International Class in 1974. The...
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| x Rickard Sarby | Finn | |||
| x Peter Milne | Fireball | |||
| x John Spencer | Cherub | |||
| x Joachim Harpprecht | Musto Performance Skiff | |||
| x Jack Holt | Jacksnipe |
Jack Holt, OBE (1912-1995) was a prolific designer of sailing dinghies. His pioneering designs of dingies using plywood did much to popularise the sport of sailing in the period immediately following World War II.
Born in Hammersmith, London near...
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| International Canoe | ||||
| International 14 | ||||
| Merlin Rocket | ||||
| Mirror 16 | ||||
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| x Alois Roland | Europe | |||
| x William Crosby | Snipe | |||
| x Bruce Kirby | Laser |
Bruce Kirby (born 1929) was born and raised in Ottawa and began sailing on Lac Deschenes with his father and older brother David. He likes to say he was late getting started because he was born in January and didn't get sailing until June.
When he...
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| Laser Radial | ||||
| San Juan 24 | ||||
| Sonar | ||||
| Ideal 18 | ||||
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| x Barry Bucknell | Mirror |
Barry Bucknell (26 January 1912 – 21 February 2003) was a BBC TV presenter who popularised Do It Yourself (DIY) in the United Kingdom.
Bucknell served an apprenticeship with Daimler, after which he joined his father's building and electrical firm in...
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| x Jan Herman Linge | Yngling |
Jan Herman Linge (January 28, 1922 in Oslo, Norway – June 25, 2007) was a Norwegian engineer and boat designer. He was the son of Martin Linge, known for his war effort in Kompani Linge.
Linge was born in Oslo in 1922. He was a member of the...
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| x Paul Wright | Phantom | |||
| x Brian Taylor | Phantom | |||
| x Rex Fettell | Sabre | |||
| x Phil Bolger |
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HMS Surprise |
Philip C. Bolger (December 3, 1927–May 24, 2009), prolific boat designer, was born and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began work full time as a draftsman for boat designers Lindsay Lord and then John Hacker in early 1950s. Bolger also cites...
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