Who designed the best looking yachts?

[coopec]

Before anyone beats me to it I say John Alden.

 

[Wansworth]

Laurent Giles,Fife,s&s,David Hilliard,his bigger boats.....

 

[coopec]

Well, where's the proof?

Have to agree with you re S & S



Laurent Giles 51ft


Hilliard 37ft



Fife Altair "Luxury Sailing Yacht"

 

[Poignard]

Kim Holman.

He designed mine and I think she is a beauty!

I think it takes outstanding skill to design a small yacht that looks well and isn't spoiled by an ugly coachroof.

 

[[70521]]

Beauty is in the eye of the berth holder.

 

[coopec]

Kim Holman? Yes I'll go along with him - never heard of him though.
(I agree, designing a good looking small yacht is difficult)

Holman 42ft



Class act designed by Kim Holman

 

[coopec]

We can all dream....

 

[emandvee44]

All the above plus Arthur Robb. We have been on board her - lovely! (Rob Roy)
M.

 

[jwilson]

For modernish yachts, German Frers and S&S. A bit earlier Holman & Pye, Alden and and S&S again. Lots of designers have produced the occasional lovely yacht in amongst many others less pretty, but the above have a high percentage of beauty in their designs.

 

[Dan Tribe]

Kim Holman? Yes I'll go along with him - never heard of him though.
(I agree, designing a good looking small yacht is difficult)

Holman 42ft

View attachment 91812

Class act designed by Kim Holman

View attachment 91813

Never heard of Kim Holman! ? Where you bin boy

 

[Ohlin Karcher]

Colin ArcherView attachment 91824

 

[Caer Urfa]

G.L. Watson was the first naval architects in the world and designed dozens of beautiful yachts typicaly as the 1883 yawl, Wendur, built of steel – with flush topsides plates

 

[Ohlin Karcher]

Colin Archer

 

[JumbleDuck]

My shortlist is

Eric Bergqvist for the Folksong (dwarves only need apply, or at least try to sit inside)

Charles/Peter (not sure which) Nicholson for the Nic 32

Robert Tucker for the Corribee

And I give my award to Robert Tucker because it is hard enough to design a small boat which looks good and he managed to design one which looks perfect.

 

[Wansworth]

Francis Jones,east coast architect,Alan Pape,West Country man

 

[VicS]

My shortlist is
Eric Bergqvist for the Folksong (dwarves only need apply, or at least try to sit inside)
Charles/Peter (not sure which) Nicholson for the Nic 32
Robert Tucker for the Corribee
And I give my award to Robert Tucker because it is hard enough to design a small boat which looks good and he managed to design one which looks perfect.

Interesting that you pick the Folksong and the Nic 32

Round-the-world yachtsman Tony Curphey , who sails from the yard where I keep my boat, made his first circumnavigation in a Folksong and he now owns a Nic 32

However the Corribee you picture is the Newbridge boats version............ They previously built the Kaufman designed Signet and when they switched to the Corribee they ditched the original design for the deck and superstructure and substituted the Signet style superstructure

The original Corribee was wooden, clinker IIRC ....... there was one ( it may have been No1) at Gravesend SC when I worked there around 1990

See here
Corribee

 

[Minchsailor]

Raymond Wall for the NIcholson 43

 

[cueball]

Stephen Jones!

 

[Rappey]

Charles Ernest nicholson ?
Where to start..so many beautiful boats.

 

[fredrussell]

Another S & S fan here. She 31 is such a beauty:



...to say nothing of the 36...