Vindwayne
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Mr Planar for his too.
Scuttlebutt New Year Knighthood to.....
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ctva
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Russell Games Slayter, inventor of fiberglass, without whom, most of us would be sunk.
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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Brilliant nomination
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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Great, we need to nominate people from this forum.
Ohlin Karcher
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Not forgetting Taff, for his rail.
Thistle
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Riggy for the thread "A Few Gags To End The Week..." and Kukri for the thread "Park your memes here: ".
macd
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Archimedes, without whom this would be a forum for submariners.
(Also for being a man of principle, rare enough these days.)
(Also for being a man of principle, rare enough these days.)
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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I totally support it, after all he is my countryman
macd
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You're Sicilian?I totally support it, after all he is my countryman
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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Haha, not quite; a bit more to the east.You're Sicilian?
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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Any nominations for a Yacht designer??
Poignard
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Kim Holman
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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and Angus Primrose; Designer and Naval Architect, lost at sea in 1980
macd
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And lost with some nobility, by the account of his crew.
One of his last projects, bless him, was the design of our Northwind 435, although I've always suspected it had more of the Bill Dixon about it.
westhinder
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See post #2: Stephen Jones
Concerto
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I would nominate 5 yacht designers, all have designed nice easily driven and sea worthy hulls. These are only a small number from all the boats I have sailed on over the past 50+ years.
Stephen Jones
David Thomas
Herman Frers
Van de Stadt
Ed Dubois
My favourite designer is difficult to choose from above but I think it would have to be Stephen Jones or Ed Dubois.
Finally I would add Bruce Kirby for designing the Laser dinghy. Simple elegant design that has stood the test of time and over 200,000 built since being designed in 1970, yes 1970, very nearly 50 years ago.
Frogmogman
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Some excellent suggestions, and yet, in the real world, we have a knighthood for Iain Duncan Smith for services to kicking the poor while they're down.
I was delighted about Clive Lloyd finally being knighted. Long overdue and thoroughly deserved.
Bajansailor
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I can think of so many yacht designers who are far more worthy of a knighthood than a politician like IDS.
I would include Laurent Giles, Olin Stephens and Chuck Paine in that list (but there are so many others of repute as well).
Gordon Greenidge (from Barbados) was also awarded a knighthood along with Clive Lloyd - he and Desmond Haynes were an invincible pair of opening batsmen in literally hundreds of test matches, in the days when the Windies ruled supreme at cricket.
CAPTAIN FANTASTIC
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Iain Duncan Smith get a knighthood!!! what FOR????.
It appears that we, here, are able to decide to who really worth giving a Knighthood.
Therefore: The inventors of the cavity magnetron, that used to radically develop the Radar were Sir John Randall and Harry Boot. To my knowledge, Harry Boot was never knighted. Well, I suggest that he is now Sir Harry Boot. He also enjoyed sailing, owning two boats at in Salcombe, Devon.
It appears that we, here, are able to decide to who really worth giving a Knighthood.
Therefore: The inventors of the cavity magnetron, that used to radically develop the Radar were Sir John Randall and Harry Boot. To my knowledge, Harry Boot was never knighted. Well, I suggest that he is now Sir Harry Boot. He also enjoyed sailing, owning two boats at in Salcombe, Devon.
Tomahawk
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Yet the six times world champion is not recognised.