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22-05-2020, 12:37
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#31
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Abaco, Bahamas/ Western NC
Boat: Nothing large at the moment
Posts: 1,040
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
For pretty you cannot beat Alden
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22-05-2020, 13:50
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#32
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Northern NSW Australia.
Boat: Adams/Davis 35ft 7in. Custom. 2007
Posts: 587
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Kim Holman designed some very sweet and pretty vessels. I think this 33 footer would do me nicely...... thanks. I owned a Twister 28 for a few years about 30 years ago and she was very capable and could handle any weather too.
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22-05-2020, 14:35
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#33
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2017
Location: Hingham
Boat: Dickerson 37AC
Posts: 665
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
John Alden (love the Malabars)
Nat Herreshoff (sailed with his grandson Halsey Herreshoff around Europe on a 1926 NYYC40)
Gerard Dykstra (Bestevaer & customs)
Olin Stephens
William Fife
Aage Nielsen
Al Mason
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22-05-2020, 14:54
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#34
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Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2015
Location: Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean
Boat: Catalina Morgan 45
Posts: 596
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
I've had 2 boats by Stan Huntingford. I wish I would have gotten to meet him, I heard he was a character (both good and not so good). Both boats very solid and well laid out.
My second favorite naval architect is Bob Perry. Funny guy, proven designs, and I did have the pleasure to meet and chat with him at a Perry rendezvous.
But, if I ever sell my Cooper 416 I'd likely go with an Amel designed by Jean Berret & Olivier Racoupeau.
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22-05-2020, 16:22
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#35
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
Boat: BUILT!!! Roberts Mauritius 43ft
Posts: 4,540
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
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Originally Posted by oldcal46skipper
Best ever. Bill Lapworth. Designed the Cal Boats. Like my Cal Cruising 46 launched in 1967 and mine since 1982. We lived aboard and cruised 1988 to 2005. She is still at our dock on Bayou Chico, FL.
Sails like a dream. Comfortable for people over 6' tall. Four hundred gallons of diesel fuel tankage, +++
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Yes, that looks like a nice comfortable yacht. I think too many cruising production yachts try to be racing yachts at the same time. But if that's what people want......?
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22-05-2020, 16:29
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#36
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Quote:
Originally Posted by Auspicious
German Frers.
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22-05-2020, 16:42
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#37
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
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Originally Posted by aucoingc
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Mmmmm! I'm not a fan of modern designs. Maybe this is quite a fast competition yacht?
I like some overhangs but the Alden designed Sirocco (Errol Flynn's yacht) is a bit overdone!
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22-05-2020, 17:11
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#38
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2014
Location: Northern NSW Australia.
Boat: Adams/Davis 35ft 7in. Custom. 2007
Posts: 587
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
I love this boat. It was listed on Yachtworld a few weeks ago. Think it was built by Brooklyn Boatyard but forgotten the designer. Apparently is quite quick too but over 300K. Replacement was 1.8 mill I think they said.And a plus for me is it's cold molded wood !!!! A real boat !!!!
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22-05-2020, 17:30
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#39
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Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2015
Location: San Rafael, Ca.
Boat: Gaff rigged Ketch[Spray]37' on deck
Posts: 602
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
John Alden, because he without doubt designed the mot beautiful Schooner's, which i have never owned, and now to old to have it happen[82] a few year's back i was visiting my sister in Southern California, she was researching the family tree, so She tells me that i'm related to the Pilgrim's, WHAT !, yea, thru the ALDENS, so out i go, get his design book[out of print] from the camper, and read the forward, sure enough there it is, i had kindof read the forward year's ago, but not really, you know what i mean, anyway, i knew why i had salt water in my vein's, after arriving back in Port townsend, where i had my shop[shipwright], i told one of my customer's, who had an Alden schooner i worked on" i have good and bad new's for you, i'm related to J.A., so my rate is going up], we had a good laugh.
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22-05-2020, 17:35
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#40
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Moderator
Join Date: May 2008
Location: cruising SW Pacific
Boat: Jon Sayer 1-off 46 ft fract rig sloop strip plank in W Red Cedar
Posts: 21,810
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
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Originally Posted by picklesandjesse
I love this boat. It was listed on Yachtworld a few weeks ago. Think it was built by Brooklyn Boatyard but forgotten the designer. Apparently is quite quick too but over 300K. Replacement was 1.8 mill I think they said.And a plus for me is it's cold molded wood !!!! A real boat !!!!
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A nice looking boat for sure, but it reminds me of a quotation from (IIRC) Rod Stephens: "show me a yawl and I'll show you a boat whose performance and appearance can both be improved with an axe".
Jim, whose favourite designer(s) had to be S&S, consistently designs that had both performance and beauty, and a record that spanned many years and developments in the art form.
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22-05-2020, 17:53
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#41
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Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: La Ciudad de la Misión Didacus de Alcalá en Alta California, Virreinato de Nueva España
Boat: Cal 20
Posts: 22,035
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Bill Lapworth.
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For all of your celestial navigation questions: https://navlist.net/
A house is but a boat so poorly built and so firmly run aground no one would think to try and refloat it.
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22-05-2020, 18:25
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#42
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Sep 2008
Location: Victoria B.C.
Boat: Wauquiez Centurion 32
Posts: 2,882
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Steve Dashew, Dudley Dix, Bob Perry, S&S.
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22-05-2020, 18:28
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#43
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2018
Boat: 50ft Custom Fast Catamaran
Posts: 12,783
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
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Originally Posted by mitiempo
Steve Dashew, Dudley Dix, Bob Perry, S&S.
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No kidding!
Did Steve Dashew design his boats?? I had always assumed he worked with a designer to produce them.
If so, those boats are really something. He should be very proud as a fairly new designer.
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22-05-2020, 18:32
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#44
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Marine Service Provider
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Location: Victoria B.C.
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
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Originally Posted by Chotu
No kidding!
Did Steve Dashew design his boats?? I had always assumed he worked with a designer to produce them.
If so, those boats are really something. He should be very proud as a fairly new designer.
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Some of Steve's early boats were designed by Angelo Lavranos, also a great designer. Originally from South Africa but New Zealand now.
Steve designed the 56/60/64 boats that were built by TPI - 64 pictured above right.
Beowulf was Steve's own last sailboat.
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22-05-2020, 18:34
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#45
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Registered User
Join Date: Jan 2018
Boat: 50ft Custom Fast Catamaran
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
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Originally Posted by mitiempo
Some of Steve's early boats were designed by Angelo Lavranos, also a great designer. Originally from South Africa but New Zealand now.
Steve designed the 56/60/64 boats that were built by TPI - 64 pictured above right.
Beowulf was Steve's own last sailboat.
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And those highly innovative FP power boats? That’s all him? Because those are absolutely genius.
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