Who designed the best looking yachts?

[coopec]

Very, very nice! Here is one of his 35ft yawls

Colin ArcherView attachment 91824

That yacht is really sexy!!
I'll do a little more researching on his yachts in the morning. (It's in the middle of the night. I woke up wondering where the storm was we are expecting but it is still on the way. (I live at Lancelin)
256 km Watheroo Radar Loop

 

[pvb]

(I live at Lancelin)
256 km Watheroo Radar Loop

Haven't you sold the house yet?

 

[coopec]

Haven't you sold the house yet?

I've just arrived back from a triple circumnavigation!

 

[coopec]

Then there's Erroll Flynn's yacht which is really nice too! Look at the overhangs! (I bet that yacht could tell a few stories too)

 

[JumbleDuck]

Interesting that you pick the Folksong and the Nic 32

My tastes, you will note, are conservative and don't change much with LOA.

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

Did Robert Tucker not do that superstructure then? One lives and learns. Anyway, I don't like the Mk 1 much - it's OK, but the Mk 2/3 is the pretty one to me.

 

[Kelpie]

S&S... but I'm biased... excuse the fenders on the side deck, rather spoils the lines...

 

[CAPTAIN FANTASTIC]

A yacht doesn't have to be old to be beautiful.

 

[Kukri]

Raymond Wall for the NIcholson 43

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Ray Wall for the Nic 55

(I set out to buy a 43 and came home with a 55 - she seduced me)

 

[Kukri]

Or perhaps William Maxwell Blake:

 

[Old Harry]

link no workie

 

[Kukri]

I have had a weakness for beautiful women and beautiful boats all my life. The women were faster than the boats.

 

[Old Harry]

I have had a weakness for beautiful women and beautiful boats all my life. The women were faster than the boats.

You Sir, are indeed a very fortunate man

 

[Kukri]

or perhaps Uffa Fox?

my rescue puppy...




Her designer would certainly say that she was meant to look good from this angle:

Not bad for a 71 year old.

 

[westhinder]

Stephen Jones!

I couldn’t possibly disagree, but I would also like to mention Peter Brett, who designed the Rival range, of which the 34 was undoubtedly the prettiest. I will admit I owned one for 11 years, until I bought my current Stephen Jones Starlight 39.
This picture was made In Loch Scresort, Rum, and shows a Rival 34 and my Starlight in the background

 

[Kukri]

Seriously, the answer. as we all know, is William Fife the Third.

 

[Praxinoscope]

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.

Van de Stadt and David Sadler for their variations on the Folkboat, the Invicta 26, Contessa 26 and of course the Contessa 32.

 

[Porthandbuoy]

Most yachts from the Nicholson range are pretty.

 

[coopec]

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

Nice!!

 

[coopec]

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

Frances Jones

 

[coopec]

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

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