William Garden Yacht Design Review

The 42 tri cabin wanderer motoryacht which spawned 1000 s of taiwanese imitations the 36 willard vega forerunner to the entire heavy displacement trawler yacht segment and the pilothouse motorsailers decision discovery gulf 32 on which most current production cruising designs seem to be based.

William garden yacht design review. Yacht design ii features many of william garden s powerboat designs which were early mega yacht designs. He attended the edison boatbuilding school in seattle and then went to work for andrew s boat company for several years before forming his own company in 1940. They travel in sam s boat the garden designed mollie a 73 foot by 15 foot speedster powered by twin 1 000 horsepower man diesels with arneson drives.

Today there are thousands of boats sailing around the world designed by william garden. A canadian by birth garden moved to seattle at the age of ten and spent much of his time learning the art of sail and boat building around the shores of lake union. The hull is hand laid fiberglass with the rest of the boat being constructed of thai teak.

So wrote the legendary william garden who died last week. William garden was born in 1918. Us 127 000 infinity is a william garden design built to the highest standards.

By garden william cad 54 95 as it s title suggests this new edition of william garden s classic text on yacht design includes several additions from a cradle boat and light pocket cruisers through classic power launches to luxury yachts and seaworthy motorsailers. The text accompanying each design centers on the background of each boat rather than on a technical study. Many of them as attractive as you ll find anywhere.

Tiller publishing 1999 transportation 320 pages. I think william garden did that a lot. Biography of william garden.

The hull deck and interior joinery were built in taiwan at the john. Garden s written descriptions are concise and hull of information for yacht designers and those interested in early pacific northwest mega yachts. Each essay is as different as the boat it describes sometimes explaining a detail of the building process the origins of a design the individuals.