William Garden Yacht Designs

Contact seller 1965 mariner m35 william garden design boat is located at guest dock facility space 11 at the harbor police sub station freedom is an all wood mariner ketch of 35 feet japan built by far east yachts in 1965 whose design and furnishings are a william garden design.

William garden yacht designs. William garden cm 5 november 1918 29 april 2011 was a canadian and american naval architect and marine engineer. I think william garden did that a lot. Sailboat and sailing yacht searchable database with more than 8 000 sailboats from around the world including sailboat photos and drawings.

I love all jl boats. Garden recommends large rudders. Good big rudders assure positive control on one engine or when running slowly before a bad sea he comments in yacht designs.

William garden was a self confessed recluse who lived and worked in british columbia. Tshould qualify this design review at the start by i confessing that 1 am a certifiable boat nut. For six decades he designed watercraft ranging from commercial fishing vessels and tugboats to motor and sailing yachts.

From the board of william garden circa 1971 yacht designs 1977 yacht designs ii 1992 and yacht designs. The original edition of yacht designs was. Joel white s neat little double ender that we re reviewing here reminds me of the term vice free an expression i ve come across in new zealand and one that brings to mind a lovely docile sort of yacht.

Bill garden s work is an inspiration to succeeding generations of yacht designers. Garden was born in calgary alberta his family moved to oregon and later washington while he was a child in 1924. For information on individual designs and for an index of all the designs held at ships plans visit the william garden collection.

The 42 tri cabin wanderer motoryacht which spawned 1000 s of taiwanese imitations the 36 willard vega forerunner to the entire heavy displacement trawler yacht segment and the pilothouse motorsailers decision discovery gulf 32 on which most current production cruising designs seem to be based. Garden s career as both a yacht designer and builder spanned well over six decades and untold hundreds of boats. The little inexpensive pie plates under most boats work fine at speed but a real pair of blades will make most operations a vast improvement.