Rodger Martin...

Discussion in 'Boat Design' started by Sean Herron, Sep 12, 2004.

  1. Sean Herron
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    Sean Herron, Sep 12, 2004
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    Some of the coolest designs ever!!!! I do belive that there is someone here, lurking in the shadows, that has some experience with the wonderful designs that have come from this office.
     
    dougfrolich, Sep 12, 2004
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    I've switched to multihulls on beginning of the 80's and I never came back to the so slow keel pushers with this useless weight hanging under the hull (I'm deliberately provocative...)

    But rhaaahhh!!! Grey Wolf....when I see pics of this boat my mouth waters and my hands shake. It's the lone monohull sail boat that gave me a shiver in the back in more than 20 years. Pure Art.

    Why? the mix of classic and modern? the true boat look and not IOR like plastic bidet? The unstayed mast and fully battened mainsail? the wood construction? I do not know, it's a total mystery.
     
    Ilan Voyager, Sep 13, 2004
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    I've switched to multihulls on beginning of the 80's and I never came back to the so slow keel pushers with this useless weight hanging under the hull (I'm deliberately provocative...)

    But rhaaahhh!!! Grey Wolf....when I see pics of this boat my mouth waters and my hands shake. It's the lone monohull sail boat that gave me a shiver in the back in more than 20 years. Pure Art.

    Why? the mix of classic and modern? the true boat look and not IOR like plastic bidet? The unstayed mast and fully battened mainsail? the wood construction? I do not know, it's a total mystery.
     
    Ilan Voyager, Sep 13, 2004
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    SailDesign Old Phart! Stay upwind..

    That would be me... I worked with Rodger for 5 years, eventually becoming a partner in the company. I left before Grey Wolf, but produced a 40-footer at about the same time (balsa/chestnut/carbon hull) called the Wind of Change/Black Sea 40.
    http://www.boatdesign.net/gallery/showphoto.php/photo/613/sort/1/cat/500/page/5
    While I can't say our parting was friendly, we are quite chatty again, just as it should be.
    I worked on (amongst others) Duracell, Grinaker, Coyote, the Johnson 18, Quadrille, Katie G, Cetacea, the Melbourne-Osaka boat (never built) and some others. After my departure, he went on to produce the Quest and AeroDyne series. Nice stuff, great designer.

    Steve
     
    SailDesign, Sep 13, 2004
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    That is quite an impressive list Steve. If I had to name my top ten favorite boats of all time, you might have named nearly half of them.

    signed

    Jealous
     
    dougfrolich, Sep 13, 2004
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    SailDesign Old Phart! Stay upwind..

    Doug,
    Don't you be making me have to buy a new hat, now. :)
    Steve
     
    SailDesign, Sep 14, 2004
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