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Videos. youtube.com

- TYD#852. Tanton Custom 73. Velos.

 https://youtu.be/DrMoacXw5V4

- TYD#225. Sailing Lily; about the building of a Modern Bristol Channel Cutter. youtube.com  

 For any questions: sailing yacht lily@gmail.com; or tantonyachts@gmail.com

-TYD#965- 205. 

 Arctic SeaCamel. youtube.

_ TYD#309. Ilgaz.

https://youtu.be/DubdqlyFV-s

Feadship and ELIA.

Https://youtu.be/5Vei9xCSjEg

 WoW! Please read again from Junk Rig to Elia on this Blog.

I am not pretending that the source started with the small 10M. aluminum cruising boat TYD#153, but I am glad that the Trend is there and sponsored by one of the best Shipyard in the world.

20 Meter Sailboat. Making progress

 

- A few explanations are in order.

- As you know by now, most of my work is about custom boat designs. When I say most, it is about all of them. See an earlier Blog: Custom Yacht Design.

Custom Tanton Sailboat Tour - EP16 #retroboat with #sailinganarchy Scot ...

- In case you are wondering what she looked like before modifications over 35 years; look at the keel and rudder in particular. I'll show the new keel and rudder of 2004 for comparison.

(more later).

Custom Boat Design.

- What is the best way to start a custom boat design?

- Being someone involved at 98% with individuals boats, there is pattern that one must follow.

- The project has to be fun because, it is pretty expensive. So, you may as well enjoy the process for the price.

- But, it has to start from the client with a realistic approach about cost, timing and have some firm ideas about the boat itself.

- Fortunately the clientele for customs boats is in general well informed and, very likely had many yachts beforehand.

- From my side, before embarking on a new project, I definitely communicate the process by engaging the customer to consider something I have done before among the many designs in his category for a possible match. And maybe with some modifications to lower cost of design and engineering.

Sailboats. Living the past.

Yacht Design; Yacht Designers in peril.

- I found this recent article written by someone involved in the design and reviews of Pleasure Boats.

- Yes time have changed since when first, I had the opportunity to draw wonderful Sea Creatures we call Sailboats. I'll leave it to that!

https://goodoldboat.com/yacht-design/

Charter Worldwide.

- I have the knack of always starting something in the most difficult of Times.

- No exception with this new Affiliated Venture.

Boat of the Month: Outlaw by Illingworth and Primrose.

 - 1963 Outlaw by I & P.

- I became acquainted with John Illingworth by sailing his boats.

- Eider 2, a transom stern Maica and Giraglia Race winner, Chin Blue, Maryka; Oryx; Monk of Malham and Merle of Malham. This variety of sailboats took me from the Med to England, to Holland, and to Denmark. Every summer was spent on the water and racing. I did not have the means to own and sail small boats but for a couple of exceptions, therefore I took ocean racing instead where you just have to show up and be willing to do anything and to learn fast in a competitive environment

- This started when I was 16 years old, enamored by yacht design, designers and to be on the water to race.

- Outlaw came out in 1963 and represented in my eyes to be the epitome of a racing machine. I never sailed the boat, just eye candy for me. This is why I dedicate this Boat of the Month to the I & P designed Outlaw.

Powerboats.

- TYD#257

Numeca International, press release.

sales@numeca.be

NUMECA International: Fine/ Marine reducing the Drag for Tanton Yacht Design.
Numeca is happy to announce that Fine/Marine, the leading CFD solution for naval architects, has been used successfully to check the static and dynamic properties of the boat called "TYDe 68"designed by Mr. Tanton Y-M, naval architect and owner of Tanton Yachts.
Thanks to its unique features (adaptive grid refinement, quasi-static approach, sub-cycling method, etc.) Fine/ Marine has been used to predict accurately the TYDe 68 wake patterns at different speeds, including free trim and sink. In a second step, these results (pressure distribution, free-surface elevation, streamlines, etc.) allowed optimization of the hull shape by reducing total drag, reducing fuel consumption and emissions at cruise speed.

Boat of the Month. April 2020, Oceanus.

OCEANUS

-Note: You can also see another:  Sailboat of the Month. August 2016,  "Black Soo". On Search.

- In another life, I would want to be re-incarnated as William Garden. And I know that many other Yacht Designers would envy of the same.
- My tribute to him is to take his own personal boat, Oceanus as described above and manage a re-creation that I hope he would approve of.

Sailboats paintings.

Foot note.

- I have Professionally designed boats since 1966. I do not want to age myself but for that period of time, most of the design work was simply, not so simple; on 2 dimensions paper and pencil or ink on vellum and Mylar; with a third dimension in my brain to visualize contours, perspectives and nuances.

- Thirty years later, 1996 computers in my office took fully over the design process. For the good or the bad, entire generations, history and talent went from hand drawing to pushing buttons.

- I do not want to dwell on it but, this is what took me to go painting! Where I can use "Through Hand and Eyes" to paraphrase the title of  Ted Hood's book to exercise the certain form of creativity of mine.

- Les Voiles de Saint-Tropez.