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, times have changed since the first moment I had the opportunity to draw a wonderful, 

creature we call Sailboat. 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 on his boat designs.

Numeca International, press release.

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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.