YACHT DESIGNERS

Designers of sailboats and fuel efficient powerboats.

William Garden is Canada's legendary naval architect and yacht designer. Extremely talented and prolific, he has produced over 650 designs from which thousands of boats have been built around the world, and his design work is featured in maritime museum collections throughout North America. A valued mentor and inspiration to generations of Canadian yacht designers, he has helped put Canada at the forefront in this field.

Ted Brewer has designed over 270 boats including custom, production designs, ocean going yachts and fast performance racing yachts. He currrently lives in Agassiz, BC with his wife. He no longer accepts custom design work, but continues to sell stock plans and writes the occasional articles for cruising magazines.

Since the establishment of the company in the 1930's, Sparkman & Stephens has successfully completed over 2600 designs and related assignments in the pleasure, commercial and military sectors. Best known for the design of sailing yachts, the firm has branched out into brokerage and has offices in New York and Fort Lauderdale

Roger Hill, a native of New Zealand has been a marine designer for over 25 years and has a background of experience in all types of vessels and construction techniques.

Robert Perry is based in Washington State, and is a successful yacht designer generally credited with starting the "performance cruising" movement that introduced the concept of sailing speed to offshore cruising yachts. After spending several years as apprentice for design offices, in 1974, Robert Perry opened his own yacht design office on Shilshole Bay in Seattle. The body of work produced since then has established the Perry office as one of the leaders in performance oriented cruising yachts. In 1979, Yacht Racing/Cruising Magazine awarded Bob its Medal of Achievement for Performance Cruising Design. In 1989 CRUISING WORLD magazine established the CRUISING HALL OF FAME named 15 sailing professionals who "have made a difference to cruising sailors everywhere". Bob Perry was one of the first 15 inductees into this auspicious HALL of FAME group. Some of the famous Perry designed production boats include the Valiant, Tayana, Passport, Baba and the Cheoy Lee series.rnrn

Mark Ellis began his design career in 1965. After working with Hunt Associates, Philip Rhodes, Ted Hood 0f Little Harbor Yachts and C & C, Mark set up his own design firm in 1975. One of his most successful design is the Nonsuch class.

judel/vrolijk & co is Germany's internationally most well known and well established yacht design office for offshore sailing yachts. Reputed as one of the leading design office for race boats in diverse classes and famous for their innovations in the race boat scene, the office of the partners Judel, Vrolijk and Cponradi is also specialised in design, engineering und detailing for one-of cruising super yachts up to 180ft and production boats such as 'Baltic Yachts', 'Dehler', 'Hanse', 'Najad' or 'Grand Soleil'.

When you want an honest, no nonsense boat that will get you where you want to go, check out George's famous Diesel Ducks and his other fine designs.