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2. Boat building - Wikipedia

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   Boat building is the design and construction of boats (instead of the larger ships) — and their on-board systems. This includes at minimum the construction of a hull , with any necessary propulsion, mechanical, navigation, safety and other service systems as the craft requires.

3. Robert Perry (yacht designer) - Wikipedia

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   Robert H. Perry is a U.S. yacht designer based in Seattle, Washington. Among his designs are some of the most successful cruising yachts in modern cruising such as the Tatoosh 42, Tayana 37 and Valiant 40. Through his career he has designed boats for many well recognized names in the yachting industry, such as Tayana, Cheoy Lee, Valiant, Baba ...

4. Phil Bolger - Wikipedia

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   Susanne Altenburger. Philip C. Bolger (December 3, 1927 – May 24, 2009) was a prolific American boat designer, who was born and lived in Gloucester, Massachusetts. He began work full-time as a draftsman for boat designers Lindsay Lord and then John Hacker in the early 1950s. The Gloucester Light Dory, one of Bolger's better-known designs.

5. Phil Morrison (yacht designer) - Wikipedia

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   Phil Morrison is a British boat designer and racer rendered notable by the success of his many designs in many classes since 1967 as well as his own distinguished yacht racing career. He was born in Eastbourne, England, in November 1946. His designs embrace dinghies, yachts, rowing boats, and multihulls; he has been successful in a yacht and ...

6. Chine (boating) - Wikipedia

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   Chine (boating) A chine in boat design is a sharp change in angle in the cross section of a hull. The chine typically arises from the use of sheet materials (such as sheet metal or marine ply) as the mode of construction.

7. Sven Yrvind - Wikipedia

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   A later boat, 'Yrvind', at an ambitious 4.1m, eventually turned out to be too small and too slow to make major ocean passages in cold waters. In 2008 Sven started work on 'Yrvind.com', a 4.8 metre design inspired in part by Matt Layden's "Paradox". 'Yrvind.com' is built of divinycell, fiberglass, carbon fiber and epoxy.