Anthony Fokker's Yacht

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Pure coincidence: I saw Joop, that you asked for the name of Fokker's yacht: well, the name is Q.E.D. = Quat Erat Demonstrandum (Hetgeen Te Bewijzen Was) that they use in Goniometrics.
You clearly see the name on the stern topside of the boat.

Extraordinary Machine, really a Aircraft designers Yacht, unfortunately he could not see "TiTania" -

I have a book with all the aircraft designs of Fokker, text and drawings/pictures maybe there something of his yacht in there. Will check.

[yipster]

http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/sh...big/ppuser/690
fokker was quik with airplanes and design, i made a mistake thinking it was aluminium, if you can scan some of the pics i like to see them

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Q.E.D. was built out of wood, the year before A.F. died; it is said that it burnt too - but indeed, little info is available.
I looked in the Jubilee Book of Fokker Aircraft that I ever received from the company in it's heighdays but could not find this yacht.

If you look at it, it has all the marks of the today's yachts, only the stern and raised cokcpit shows the time she was designed in.

Let'see if we can dig up more details.

It might be something or my "Mysterious Yachts" thing......

[kach22i]

FYI: If you are into cool and sometimes odd things...................

Sanders Roe; designed and built just about everything; boats, aircraft, and even hydrofoils and hovercraft.

I have this book............a real keeper.

http://www.foils.org/popbook.htm

Wheeler, Raymond L.; From River to Sea - The Marine Heritage of Sam Saunders, Cross Publishing, Newport, Isle of Wight, UK, 1993. ISBN 1 873295 05 7 (Hardback). As the name of the book suggests, it deals primarily with the maritime activities of the companies that had their origins with Sam Saunders. This is the second of two closely related books, the first having been titled From Sea to Air - The Heritage of Sam Saunders and jointly authored with Albert E. Tagg. While the first book concentrated mainly on the aviation history of the company principally known as Saunders Roe, From River to Sea looks more closely at the boats, hydrofoils and hovercraft that were developed by that company and its successors. Apart from the wealth of information, photos and sketches concerning the development of the hovercraft from the SRN1 through to the SRN4, this book also deals with the briefer period of hydrofoil development work by the Saunders Roe company in support of the Canadian naval hydrofoil program. This led to the construction in 1956/57 of the 59 foot long hydrofoil vessel R-103 Bras D'Or which was equipped with ladder foils. The Bras D'Or was subsequently re-named Baddeck in 1962 in anticipation of the construction of the proposed larger FHE-400 which was to be given the name Bras D'Or. The development of the FHE-400 is covered in the book The Flying 400 - Canada's Hydrofoil Project by Thomas G. Lynch. The author of From River to Sea joined Saunders Roe in 1945 as an apprentice and by 1962 had been appointed as the Chief Designer of British Hovercraft Corporation Ltd.

[yipster]

some real nice looking books !

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With a bit of luck, I got a tip from somebody of the Fokker company and I was able to find the utterly rare commemoralia of the Art Deco yacht of Anthony Fokker. We now know also how the interior has looked like. There is more material available but that has to be found still.