Designers

By Russ, on April 21st, 2011

There are many great designers on both sides of the pond. But following my research into the characteristics of the best blue water cruisers I thought I might list the designers that are responsible for the designs in my database.

Just for fun I thought I would separate USA from Europe, perhaps there are some design themes that are more USA or more Euro, I would not like to say!

USA	Boats	Europe	Boats
Bill Crealock	Willard ; Pacific Seacraft	David Sadler	Contessa ; Sadler
Bob Johnson	Island Packet	Maurice Griffiths	Eventide ; Golden Hind ; Barbican
George Cuthbertson & George Cassian	C&C Yachts	Judel/Vrolijk	Custom Classic & Racing Yachts
Bruce Farr	Farr ; Beneteau ; Jeanneau ; Finngulf	Germán Frers	Hallberg Rassy ; Swan ; Hylas ;
C. William Lapworth	Cal	Peter Norlin and Jens Ostmann	Sweden Yachts
Dick Valdes	Columbia	Philippe Briand	Ovni ; Beneteau ; Jeanneau
Tim Jackett	Tartan	Hollman & Pye	Oyster
David Walters	Cambria	Bill Dixon	Moody
Bob Perry	Valiant ; Saga ; Passport	Chuck Paine	Cabo Rico ; Morris ; Bowman
Mark Ellis	Bruckmann	Charles Nicholson	Camper & Nicholson
Ted Gozzard	Gozzard	Kaj Gustaffsson	Nauticat
Clinton and Everett Pearson	Pearson	Ron Holland	Trintella ; Feeling ; Swan ; Nicholson ; Discovery
		Carl Beyer	Regina ; Aphrodite ; Hanse ; Najad
		Rob Humphreys	Southerly

Now here’s a funny thing. When you look at the yachts that score “4outof4” on the D/L and SA/D ratios as well as come inside the CSF filter. These are the designers that stand out, Chuck Paine, Robert H. Perry, Philippe Briand, Kim Holman, Carl Beyer

Just look at the boats (LOA > 40ft) that these guys are responsible for…

Chuck Paine	Robert H. Perry	Philippe Briand	Kim Holman	Carl Beyer
BOWMAN 40 1987	NORDIC 40 1981	SUN FIZZ 40 (JEANNEAU) 1980	WORTH 40 1982	APHRODITE 40 1985
INTREPID 40 1981	NORSTAR 40 1995	OVNI 435 2005	OYSTER 406 1988	APHRODITE 42 1988
CABO RICO 40 1998	VALIANT 40 PH 1981	OVNI 43 1991	AMPHITRITE 43 (WAUQUIEZ) 1975	REGINA OF VINDO 43 1997
MORRIS 42 1997	VALIANT 40-2 1981	OCEANIS 430 (BENETEAU) 1990	OYSTER 435 1984	NAJAD 520 1994
ABLE 42 1989	VALIANT 40-1 (101-199) 1973	ESPACE 1300 (JEANNEAU) 1981	OYSTER 42 1998
MORRIS 46 1996	PANDA 40 1983	SUN ODYSSEY 45.2 (JEANNEAU) 1999	CORSAIR 45 (HOMAN & PYE) 1973
BOWMAN 48 1981	TASHIBA 40 1984	SUN KISS 45 (JEANNEAU) 1983	OYSTER 46 1985
MORRIS 51 2003	PASSPORT 40 1980	SUN ODYSSEY 45 DS (JEANNEAU) 2007	BOWMAN 46 CORSAIR 1972
APOGEE 50 (ABLE) 1995	CHEOY LEE 41 1979	SUN ODYSSEY 44I (JEANNEAU) 2009	OYSTER 485 1994
CABO RICO 56 2003	PH 41 1975	SUN KISS 47 (JEANNEAU) 1984	OYSTER 55 1985
BOUGAINVILLEA 62 1997	PASSPORT 41 1987	FIRST 45 BRIAND (BENETEAU) 2002	BOWMAN 57/58 1975
	TATOOSH 42 1984	SUN ODYSSEY 47 CC (JEANNEAU) 1991	OYSTER 70 1990
	SOUTH PACIFIC 42 1988	OVNI 455 CC 2005
	VALIANT 42 1992	SUN ODYSSEY 49 DS (JEANNEAU) 2004
	GOLDEN WAVE 42 1983	FIRST 50 (BENETEAU) 2007
	HANS CHRISTIAN 36 1974	SUN ODYSSEY 49I (JEANNEAU) 2009
	SAGA 43 1996	OCEANIS 500 (BENETEAU) 1989
	CHEOY LEE 44 1979	OCEANIS 510 (BENETEAU) 1992
	NORDIC 44 1980	MOORINGS 500 1988
	NORSTAR 44 1995	SUN FAST 52 (JEANNEAU) 1991
	LAFITTE 44 1978	JEANNEAU 53 2008
	NORSEMAN 447 1980	BORDEAUX 60 2007
	ISLANDER FREEPORT 41 1974	DYNAMIQUE 62 1983
	NASSAU 45 1984
	SEAMASTER 46 1982
	PASSPORT 47 1983
	VALIANT 47 1981
	CHEOY LEE 48 1980
	TAYANA 48 DS 1992
	TAYANA 48 CC 1992
	PASSPORT 50 1994
	VALIANT 50 1997
	TATOOSH 51 1983
	TAYANA 52 1983
	CT 54 1975
	CT 56 1986
	CT 65 / SCORPIO 72 1984
	SCORPIO 72 1989