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22-05-2020, 02:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
Boat: BUILT!!! Roberts Mauritius 43ft
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Who's you favorite yacht architect?
I don't like modern yachts with their bow spits, fin keels and dagger board rudder.. I reckon Sparkman and Stephens take a lot of beating
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22-05-2020, 03:08
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Registered User
Join Date: Oct 2011
Boat: Valiant 42
Posts: 6,008
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
If your bow is spitting maybe get that looked at<g>.
I agree about high aspect spade rudders. They give me the willys. But a fin keel is not controversial in my view. Now, if we speak about rusty iron high aspect keels with bulbs at the end then those also give me pause. Full keels are not a good solution in my experience.
I think my boat’s undercarriage is pretty much perfect. Strong lead fin keel, big skeg hung rudder with prop well protected between the keel and rudder.
Bow entry is smooth and almost never pounds into waves from all angles. As the wind picks up, the displacement moves forward as it should. Nothing immediately below the bow pulpit so dropping and raising anchor is dead simple.
The topsides aren’t pretty or fashionable. Like an iceberg, the real beauty is 90% underwater.
One example: https://www.sail-world.com/news/2188...uda-Race-day-7
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22-05-2020, 03:42
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
If your bow is spitting maybe get that looked at<g>.
Thanks for that. I quickly typed bowspit and google didn't like it so I changed it to bow spit (I now see my error )
They give me the willys
Do you mean "willies"?
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22-05-2020, 03:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Ocala FL
Boat: 1979 Bristol 35.5 CB
Posts: 1,953
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
OP's boats are pretty
Bill Tripp Jr is a fave- Mercer 44 is a beauty and I am partial to centerboarders.
Some S/S race boats as above.
Not what I would choose to own however.
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22-05-2020, 03:54
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Registered User
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Australia
Boat: BUILT!!! Roberts Mauritius 43ft
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
transmitterdan The Valiant 42 looks fine (The canoe stern is a nice touch). But I'm not wrapped in the exposed prop (I worry about fishing rope lines).
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22-05-2020, 04:03
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Quote:
Originally Posted by sanibel sailor
OP's boats are pretty
Bill Tripp Jr is a fave- Mercer 44 is a beauty and I am partial to centerboarders.
Some S/S race boats as above.
Not what I would choose to own however.
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OP's boats are pretty. ???
The Mercer 44 is very pretty
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22-05-2020, 06:46
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Marine Service Provider
Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Bayou Chico, FL 32507
Boat: Cal Cruising 46 - SATORI
Posts: 402
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
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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22-05-2020, 07:28
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Registered User
Join Date: Apr 2020
Boat: Amel 53, Super Maramu
Posts: 428
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
For the very specialized kind of boats he designed, Henrie Amel.
He was amazingly creative in structural design, materials, construction techniques and systems, and appropriately conservative in hull and rig design.
You might decide you like his visual style, or not. But if form follows function, these are very beautiful boats.
"No boat is perfect for everybody, and no boat is perfect for anybody. All boats are compromises."
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22-05-2020, 07:43
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: Skagit City, WA
Posts: 25,453
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
So many.
Many of the S&S architects.
Ted Hood
Bob Perry
Yves Marie Tanton.
Tanton 44 (see my avatar) Kind of a sleek Valiant 40 canoe!
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22-05-2020, 07:44
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Chesapeake Bay
Boat: HR 40
Posts: 3,651
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
German Frers.
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Beware cut and paste sailors
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22-05-2020, 07:48
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Petersburg, AK
Boat: Outremer 50S
Posts: 4,229
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Oh, come now, Chris White!
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22-05-2020, 08:18
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2014
Location: Paris, France
Boat: Jeanneau 2012 509, 50.5 ft
Posts: 40
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Philippe Briand. He designed the Jeanneau 509/519 monohull which is pitch perfect in every way.
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Isosceles, a Jeanneau 509
Currently in Agios Nikolaos, Crete
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22-05-2020, 08:19
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Registered User
Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Live in Boise, boat is in the Rio Dulce
Boat: 56' CNSO Mikado Cutter Ketch
Posts: 367
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Lyle Hess
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22-05-2020, 08:32
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Registered User
Join Date: Jun 2019
Posts: 11
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
Definitely German Frers.
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22-05-2020, 08:32
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Registered User
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Morro Bay, CA
Boat: Herreshoff 28 modified ketch- wood
Posts: 379
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Re: Who's you favorite yacht architect?
L. Francis Herreshoff. And his philosophy- the Thoreau of the marine world.
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