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Ted Brewer: A Stand-Up Draftsman

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Yacht designer Ted Brewer gazes back over a storied career.

T ed and Betty Brewer’s living room is warm and inviting. Two harpoons hang on teak-colored walls, and a model boxcar sits on the shelf alongside other artifacts marking a life well-lived. A picture window overlooks a baseball diamond across a quiet street in Agassiz, British Columbia. With its neat buildings and carefully trimmed yards, the town feels bricked with charm and mortared with apple pie. But just outside the window, above the baseball diamond, the craggy, glaciated peak of Mount Cheam towers, a reminder of the wild Coast Mountains and North Cascades ranges that embrace the community.

“I’ve never been a sit-down draftsman. I’ve always been standing up at the drafting board,” says Edward “Ted” Brewer, the world-renown yacht designer who worked on two America’s Cup contenders and designed 260 boats including yachts built by Aloha, Morgan, Nimble, Union, and Whitby.

“For many years it was standing up at the drafting board with a cigarette,” says Betty.

“Yeah, too many years with a cigarette,” Ted agrees, leaning back in a sage-green armchair with extra foam padding. “No more cigarettes.”

At 87, Ted no longer designs or smokes, but he tells stories with his whole being, arms thrown up in amazement, voice soaring high with incredulity, mouth crinkling with infectious laughter. A mischievous twinkle in his eyes reveals a certain boyish quality that belies his grey hair. On his left forearm, a weathered tattoo takes him back to his youth, roaming the Navy docks in Hamilton, Ontario, learning to sail from his father’s veteran friends.

“By the time I was 15, I was proficient at rigging, rowing, and sailing, and I was allowed free run of the Navy’s 14-foot dinghies and 26-foot whaleboats. I could go down to the Navy base in Hamilton and sign out a 27-foot sailboat on my own account. My girlfriend, her girlfriends, and my buddies would all be there. We’d get the boat rigged and ready and out we would go.”

When he was about 15, Ted and a friend bought their first boat.

“We coughed up 55 dollars for Quest , a 16-foot ship’s gig that someone had put a long wood fin on and an overly heavy, gaffy rig.” A year of scraping, painting, and replacing rotted planks, and Quest was ready for her maiden voyage. After ballasting her with 400 pounds of sandbags, they cast off into afternoon squalls. They were soon knocked down, and panic rose as water came over the lee hull. The two boys managed to fling the sandbags over the side and eventually right her. Upon being towed in, a photographer appeared on the scene, and much to Ted’s chagrin a photo of their woeful yacht made the paper the next day.

It wasn’t long after that he got the tattoo: an anchor with Quest stenciled beneath it.

Downstairs in Ted’s studio, half- models and photos of some of his hundreds of designs cover the wood-panelled walls. Two drafting boards hold metal weights or “whales” (aka ducks), a handful of pens and pencils, articulating table lamps, cardboard blueprint tubes. These are the tools of a traditionalist; Ted has always preferred drawing by hand to using CAD software.

Even as a child, he liked to draw. He would doodle Navy boats in the margins of his school papers where, despite being the youngest in his class, he earned top grades, at least until high school, when boredom set in.

“I really goofed off…I quit school to get a job as a Class 4 electrician at the steel company in Hamilton.”

During one night shift, Ted read a military recruiting advertisement in Liberty magazine. The next morning, he went to the armory and signed up.

“I didn’t get home until almost 10 a.m. When mum met me at the door she asked if I had to work overtime again. I said, ‘No, I just joined the Army,’ and I caught her before she hit the floor!”

Ted survived the grueling Army boot camps, and by 1957 he’d made lieutenant. But he remained restless, and one day, his company commander finally suggested that he pursue his passion for boating. “He knew I loved boats. I resigned my commission and got a job in Toronto as a yacht broker with George Cuthbertson.”

Cuthbertson, who would go on to become the first “C” in C&C Yachts, at the time was building Inishfree , a 54-foot wooden ocean racing yawl. Not long after joining the firm, Ted asked if he could accompany Dick Telford, the yacht brokerage firm’s boatbuilder, to see Inishfree under construction. When he saw the yard and spoke with the builders, Ted was struck with yearning.

“I thought, ‘Oh god, this is what I want. I want to design boats and build boats.’ ’’ Encouraged by Telford, Ted enrolled in a yacht design course at Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology. He’d almost completed it when he heard that Alfred Edward “Bill” Luders Jr. in Stamford, Connecticut, was looking for a design assistant.

“With Dick’s blessing, I applied for the job.”

“He doesn’t stand for very long,” Betty says, gently ushering Ted over to an office chair. Seated, Ted reaches for the computer mouse, one of few visible concessions to modern technology. Above the desk is a black-and-white photo of Bill Luders’ 40-foot Storm flying a spinnaker. Tucked into a corner of the frame is a photo of Luders himself, in a pullover and collared shirt.

In 1960, at the age of 27, Ted started working as Luders’ assistant, basically a second-in-command in the shipyard. He’d visit each department daily to see what was happening, problem-solve, and then head for the drafting room, where Luders would give him sketches to turn into a working drawing. At the end of the workday, Luders and Ted would sit in the office, smoking, and mull over designs and construction work. Often Ted would ask for Luders’ advice on his own designs. “He didn’t look at me as competition,” Ted says.

While at Luders, Ted worked on two America’s Cup boats. Weatherly , a Phil Rhodes design, which they modified, went on to win the 1962 regatta, and Luders earned the commission to design, and build a 1964 contender, American Eagle . Though American Eagle was initially the “bird to beat,” winning 20 out of 21 races in the June and July trials, by the end of summer Constellation , designed by Olin Stephens, had pulled ahead and won the right to defend the 19th America’s Cup.

By 1968, the shipyard business was foundering, and Luders closed Luders Marine Construction Co., 60 years after his father had founded it. Ted and Luders remained close until Luders’ death in 1999.

“Bill Luders was my boss, my teacher, and my great friend,” Ted says. “He was like a second father to me. I truly loved the man.”

After Luders closed the yard in 1968, Ted moved to Brooklin, Maine, to hang out his shingle. He bought an old hotel from the 1870s, “a weird place. It had eight or nine bedrooms, and only one bathroom. My first office was in the hotel dining room.”

There, he developed a design for a client who sailed on Lake Champlain and wanted a boat that would go well to weather. The boat was eventually named Black Velvet , and at the boat show in Annapolis, Kurt Hansen of Whitby Boat Works saw a photo of it and said, “I want a boat just like that.”

But as Ted began working with Whitby Boat Works, he discovered Hansen had some ideas of his own. Though Black Velvet was a fin keel, Hansen insisted on a full keel . “I wanted to at least cut it away and make the rudder separate. But no, it had to be full keel.”

At a time when full keels were the gold standard for cruisers, Ted often found himself attempting to sway owners to incorporate a fin keel’s windward sailing advantages.

“I felt the ideal was a fin keel with a skeg hung rudder behind it…If a client w anted a full keel boat, I’d cut away as much of the keel as I could…When he complained, I’d have to add a bit back.” This “Brewer Bite” would become one of Ted’s signature design features.

The Whitby 42 became an enormously popular design, selling over 230 hulls, and according to Ted, “was what established me as a production boat builder, designer.”

In 1976, Morgan Yachts approached Ted to work with Jack Corey, head of Morgan’s design staff, on a 36- to 38-foot fast cruiser. Ted recalls taking the Morgan 382 on its first sea trial. What started as a great day for a sail quickly descended into inky black skies and a lightning storm, with strikes as close as 50 yards from the boat. Though frightful, the boat emerged unscathed, perhaps the beginning of a lucky streak that would see 400 Morgan 382s built between 1977 and 1981.

Ted rests a forearm on the desk and gazes up. Centered above the desk is a large-format color photograph of a ketch flying two rainbow spinnakers over turquoise water. This was Mystic , which he designed for Marvyn Carton, who became a lifelong best friend. Built of aluminum, Mystic was launched and sailed through the Great Lakes to Europe. Ted sailed the boat with Carton in a Transpac that started slow and became a wild ride.

“We’d be going down waves doing 17 knots. Almost everybody on board was seasick. We roared through for about six or seven days of this storm. All the time Marv’s listening to the radio, and we’re hearing about crews that are out with sickness, broken this and broken that, and boats turning back. But we were on a big custom cruiser.” Not only did they finish second in class, Carton celebrated by serving the crew a 55-gallon-drum of Mai Tais and flying all their wives and sweethearts to Hawaii to join the party.

One day in 1988, Ted, living in Anacortes at the time, was driving home when he spotted a man on a BMW motorcycle.

“I owned a BMW, brand new, and so I followed him home, my big black dog on the seat beside me, and pulled into his driveway. He came out very suspicious.” Once Ted had introduced himself, the two men bonded over motorcycles, and pretty soon, the fellow introduced Ted to his daughter, Betty.

“She had just had a divorce, and I was winding up a rather disastrous marriage, so I asked her for a date to go sailing. I had rather a fancy little yawl, one that I’d designed, a Nimble 30,” Ted says. Betty, who at that point had sworn off men, was taken with Ted.

“I was definitely swept off my feet,” she says. After marrying in 1988, Ted and Betty eventually moved to Gabriola Island in 1999, where Ted designed custom yachts, sold plans, and wrote for magazines, including Good Old Boat . From 1998 to 2003, Ted was a contributing editor at Good Old Boat . He wrote humorous stories in “Fireside chats with Ted Brewer,” divulged lessons on cruising etiquette, and shared his love and knowledge of boat design.

Though he often wrote highly technical articles, Ted liked to have fun with his topics. In the July/August 1999 issue, in an article called “Brewer by the Numbers,” Ted discussed different ratios and terms used by yacht designers. Amid LODs, LOAs, LWLs, CBs, and CEs, Ted introduced a new ratio, the Comfort Ratio (CR), a formula that indicates the speed of the upward/downward motion of a boat in waves and swell. The lower the ratio, the more uncomfortable the ride.

“People were coming up with all of these sail area displacement ratios and this and that ratio. I thought, well there’s one ratio that nobody’s ever thought of, a comfort ratio. I’ll work one out,” he says. “So, I diddled around and came up with this crazy comfort ratio, and it was a joke and I published it, and it took off like a rocket. It does have a basis in fact, but I thought it was a joke.” The CR ratio remains in use to this day.

In addition to writing articles, Ted also authored three books, Understanding Boat Design , Cruising Yacht Design , and Ted Brewer Explains Sailboat Design .

These days, Ted no longer draws, but he still sells boat design plans to boatbuilders around the world at TedBrewer.com.

“His babies are everywhere,” says Betty. “When we were sailing, he would pick up the binoculars and he would look and look and say, ‘That’s one of my babies!’ ”

Some of Ted’s boats have also retired. No longer racing, Weatherly and American Eagle are in the America’s Cup Charters fleet in Newport, Rhode Island, where sailors can experience the golden age of America’s Cup racing. Other boats have had less dignified endings. Ted points to a model boat in a glass case and says, “I’ll tell you where that is right now. That’s 200 feet underwater off the coast of Machias, Maine, with a cargo of marijuana.”

Some people find time heavy on their hands when they retire, but Ted has always pursued interests including folk music, American Civil War books, and model trains. Nor are these always half-measure hobbies; at one point he had a couple hundred feet of railroad in the backyard, and to this day he sells plans for model railroad buildings and bridges online at BrewerPlans.com.

Recently, he has become an avid stock investor. He wakes up at 5 a.m, and with a coffee in hand, he checks the stock markets before going downstairs to his computer to “make any buys, sells, and trims” and answer email inquiries about his boat designs.

Retiring is in some ways like crossing a finish line, a time to reflect on achievements and legacies. Ted’s career has been extraordinary, and it’s clear that he relished every tack, jibe, and sail change. But most important to him, it seems, are the people who mentored and influenced him: George Cuthbertson, Bill Luders, Marvyn Carton, and Dick Telford among others. You need only look around his studio, where seemingly every square inch of wall space is dedicated to a boat or a photo of a loved one.

As Ted works at his computer, cane propped against one knee, Storm and Bill Luders watch down from their frame.

“The last race we ever sailed together was in 1967,” Ted says. “Bill had been at the helm two hours and said, ‘Boys I need a rest, I’m just getting weary here, somebody take over.’ Everybody volunteered and he said, ‘No, we need the best at the helm, come on, Ted.’ I drove her to within a half mile of the finish line and I said, ‘Here, Bill, take over now.’ He took her across the finish line. We won. We were not only first in our class, we were first overall. The boat was that good.”

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You may need to work out some of the ratios for the boats you are considering for purchase from the available information but the formulas are simple and can be handled by an inexpensive scientific calculator. The one I use in my design business is a Sharp EL-520, almost old enough to vote, and cost less than $25 new, too many years ago.

LENGTH: Different designers and builders have different ways of expressing Length. Length On Deck (LOD) is the true length, omitting rail overhangs, and is the honest way to describe the length of a boat. More usually, you will see it as Length Over All (LOA) which may be the LOD if the builder is honest but often includes rail overhangs, anchor sprits, bowsprits and even boomkins if the builder is trying to sell a "larger" boat.

LENGTH WATERLINE (LWL): This is an important figure to know as it more closely represents the usable size of the yacht than LOD or LOA, and it is a necessary figure in some of the other calculations. LWL is the length of the vessel as measured from the bow ending of the waterline to the stern ending. It should not include any rudder tip that may stick out past the aft end of the hull proper. The LWL will increase as the yacht sinks into the water with the added weight of stores and equipment over the years.

BEAM: This is the greatest width of the hull and is often expressed as Beam (Max). Beam WL is the width at the LWL and is very useful to know, but not readily available as a rule.

DRAFT: This is the depth of the hull from the LWL to the bottom of the keel or fin. Like the LWL, it will vary with the weights of fuel, water, stores and the equipment added over the years and is usually somewhat more than the original designed or advertised draft. When you run onto a 4' deep rock in a boat with 3'9" draft it is always nice to know that it may not be your fault.

DISPLACEMENT: If you weigh the boat on a scale, that is her actual (not advertised) displacement and it is the weight of sea water that she will displace when she is afloat. Most designers figure displacement when half loaded (the boat, not the designer) with stores, liquids and crew.

Displacement can be expressed in pounds, long tons or cubic feet; one ton = 2240 pounds = 35 cubic feet of sea water, at 64 pounds per cubic foot. Fresh water weighs only 62.4 pounds per c.f. so a boat taken from sea water to fresh water will sink into the water and increase her draft slightly. For example, a boat weighing 7500 pounds will displace 117.19 cu. ft. of sea water or 120.19 cu. ft. of fresh water. The difference is 3 cu. ft. so, if her waterline area is 150 sq. ft., she will sink 3/150 of a foot (about 1/4") when she is moved from salt to fresh water. It is truly insignificant for most sailors, unless you are skippering a 90,000 ton tanker.

CENTER OF BOUYANCY (CB): Often called Lateral Center of Buoyancy (LCB); it is the center of the underwater volume of the vessel and can be expressed as a distance abaft the forward end of the LWL, or abaft midships, or as a percentage of the LWL from the bow end. If the boat is to float on her LWL the center of gravity (CG) must be in line vertically with the CB, both fore and aft and athwartship. If the two centers are not in line the boat will change trim, and so change her underwater shape, until the new CB lines up with the CG.

For example; if your boat is floating perfectly in trim and you add 100 pounds of davits and dinghy aft you will move the center of gravity of the boat aft. The vessel will sink by the stern and the bow will come up until the underwater shape changes enough to move the CB over the new CG.

The same applies athwartship. With luck, the CB and the CG are both on the centerline of your boat so she floats level, without any heel angle. When you move to the starboard rail you move the CG off centerline to starboard, so the boat will heel until the change in underwater shape moves the CB vertically above the new CG.

CENTER OF FLOTATION (CF): The CF is the center of the waterline area and is the pivot point about which the boat changes trim, much like the pivot in the center of a teeter totter. On normal sailing hulls the CF is somewhat abaft the CB and, like the CB, is expressed as a percentage of the LWL or a distance from either the bow end of the LWL or from amidships. Of course, as the boat changes trim, due to added weights at one end or the other, the LWL shape changes, so the CF will move slightly.

WATERLINE AREA: The area of the LWL, usually expressed in square feet. It is not always easily obtained but can be calculated roughly for a sailboat by the formula : .67 x LWL x Beam. It is more accurate if you have the Beam WL rather than the Beam(Max), of course. Knowing the LWL area is essential in working out the following calculations.

FINENESS COEFFICIENT (Cf): Also called the Waterplane Coefficient, or Cwp. The Cf is a figure derived from: LWL Area/(LWL x Beam WL). The lower the Cf, the finer the hull at the waterline. Typical sailboats have a Cf of .65-.68

POUNDS PER INCH IMMERSION (PPI): The weight required to sink the yacht one inch. It is calculated by multiplying the LWL area by 5.333 for sea water or 5.2 for fresh. The PPI usually increases as the hull sinks into the water as the LWL area is also increasing due to the shape of the hull above water.

MOMENT TO TRIM 1 INCH (MTI): The MTI is the moment, expressed in foot-pounds, that will change the fore and aft trim of the yacht one inch. For a displacement hull, the MTI is, roughly (but close enough for all practical purposes), .35 times the square of the waterline area divided by the WL beam, or:

For example; a boat has a LWL Area of 165 sq ft and a Beam WL of 8 feet. The MTI is .35 x 165 x 165 /8 = 1191 ft-lbs., say 1200 for rough figuring. Now you hang a 100 pound dink 18 feet abaft the CB. You've added 1800 ft-lbs of aft moment so the boat will trim 1800/1200 = 1.5 inches down by the stern. However, the boat does trim about its CF and, as that is usually abaft amidships, the stern will move less than the bow. You might find that she trims 5/8" down by the stern, and 7/8" up by the bow, making a total trim change of 1.5 inches.

WETTED SURFACE (WS): This is the area in square feet of the underbody of the yacht, including the fin, rudder and skeg. A boat with a large WS will have more surface friction than a boat with lesser WS and be slightly slower given the same sail area due to the greater resistance. This is most important in light air as, at slower speeds, surface friction is the primary cause of resistance.

PRISMATIC COEFFICIENT (Cp): This is a figure that relates the fullness of the ends of the underwater hull to the area of the midship or largest station. The sketch will explain it better than words can.

1.0 and below .525

Selecting the correct Cp for a sailing yacht depends on her speed which, of course, varies with the winds. For an inshore racer in primarily light air conditions it might be wise to go to a .525 Cp. while an all around cruising yacht would benefit from a higher Cp, say ..54-.55 and an ocean racer from higher yet, perhaps .56-.57. In any case, it is best if the Cp is a bit on the high side since the penalty for having too high a Cp at low speeds is less detrimental to performance than having too low a Cp at high speeds. As well, the high Cp should be achieved by fullness aft, not forward, as full bows have an adverse effect on performance.

SPEED/LENGTH RATIO (V/ L.5): This is the speed in knots divided by the square root of the LWL. For example, a 25 foot waterline sailboat moving at 5.5 knots would be at a V/ L.5 of 1.1. while a 400 foot LWL destroyer travelling at 22 knots also has a V/ L.5 of 1.1. Both vessels would develop about the same resistance per ton of displacement as they are both running at the same V/ L.5.

The limiting speed for a pure displacement hull is a V/ L.5 of 1.34. Above this speed the stern wave moves aft so that the stern loses bouyancy, the hull squats, and great additional power is necessary for a small gain in speed. In truth, the typical cruising sailboat probably averages a V/ L.5 of about .9 - 1.0 and only gets close to 1.3 when reaching in a stiff breeze. Tender boats may never get above 1.2 as the crew has to ease sheets when the rail buries!

The modern beamy, super light ocean racer can have a stern wide enough to resist squatting and the stability to stand up to a breeze so often achieves speeds well above 1.4, but that is semi-planing and the boat is getting lift aft due to its speed. My BOC 60 design exceeded 20 knots at times, a V/ L.5 ratio of over 2.6, but those are very specialised yachts.

HALF ANGLE OF ENTRANCE: The angle, measured at the LWL, between the hull centerline and the actual waterline shape. Fine angles are desirable for good performance but can be overdone, creating a wet boat in a seaway. Angles below 19-20 degrees would be considered fine, 20-24 degrees is fairly usual for a cruising yacht and angles of 25 degrees and above are considered bluff bows today but were fairly common in the '60s.

CENTER OF EFFORT (CE): The center of the area of the sails. The CE is usually determined using 100% of the foretriangle area, omitting the overlap of genoa jibs. On some boats that do not carry genoas the CE may be calculated as the center of the working sails. Both the CE and the CLP may be shown on sail plans and the CE will be forward of the CLP by a distance known as LEAD. The LEAD (pronounced 'leed') is essential to provide a balanced helm and the amount of lead is based on certain characteristics of the vessel.

DISPLACEMENT/LENGTH RATIO: The D/L ratio is a non-dimensional figure derived from the displacement in tons (of 2240 lbs) divided by .01 LWL cubed, or, Dt/(.01 LWL) 3 . It allows us to compare the displacement of boats of widely different LWLs. Some examples of various D/L ratios follow, but are generalities only as there is often a wide range within each type.

BOAT TYPE D/L RATIO

Light racing multihull 40-50

Ultra light ocean racer 60-100

Very light ocean racer 100-150

Light cruiser/racer 150-200

Light cruising auxiliary 200-250

Average cruising auxiliary 250-300

Heavy cruising auxiliary 300-350

Very heavy cruising auxiliary 350-400

STORM, a wonderful 27' LWL sloop on which I raced with Bill Luders many years ago, had a D/L ratio of 386 so she would be considered very heavy by today's standards. However STORM was 39' LOA and when she heeled to a breeze her long ends would increase her sailing LWL, thus reducing her D/L ratio to a more reasonable figure when we were beating to windward. If she picked up 3 feet of WL her D/L ratio dropped to about 281, a significant change, and one that made her a very competitive racer in the 1960s.

SAIL AREA/DISPLACEMENT RATIO: The SA/D ratio is the sail area in sq. ft. divided by the displacement in cubic feet to the 2/3 power, or SA/D .667 .

Ratios below 14 are suited for motor sailers, from 14-17 for ocean cruisers and from 16-18 for typical coastal cruisers. Ratios over 18-20 are seen on racing dinghies, inshore racers and ocean racing yachts. The more extreme screamers can have very high SA/D ratios indeed; My 60 foot design, WILD THING, had a SA/D ratio, based on 100% foretriangle, of well over 30, depending on her displacement at the moment. Her displacement varied widely as she could carry 8,000 pounds of water ballast in tanks on the windward side.

COMFORT RATIO (CR): This is a ratio that I dreamed up, tongue-in-cheek, as a measure of motion comfort but it has been widely accepted and, indeed, does provide a reasonable comparison between yachts of similar type. It is based on the fact that the faster the motion the more upsetting it is to the average person. Given a wave of X height, the speed of the upward motion depends on the displacement of the yacht and the amount of waterline area that is acted upon. Greater displacement, or lesser WL area, gives a slower motion and more comfort for any given sea state.

Beam does enter into it as as wider beam increases stability, increases WL area, and generates a faster reaction. The formula takes into account the displacement, the WL area, and adds a beam factor. The intention is to provide a means to compare the motion comfort of vessels of similar type and size, not to compare that of a Lightning class sloop with that of a husky 50 foot ketch.

The CR is : Displacement in pounds/ (.65 x (.7 LWL + .3 LOA) x B 1.333 ). Ratios will vary from 5.0 for a light daysailer to the high 60s for a super heavy vessel, such as a Colin Archer ketch. Moderate and successful ocean cruisers, such as the Valiant 40 and Whitby 42, will fall into the low-middle 30s range.

Do consider, though, that a sailing yacht heeled by a good breeze will have a much steadier motion than one bobbing up and down in light airs on left over swells from yesterday's blow; also that the typical summertime coastal cruiser will rarely encounter the wind and seas that an ocean going yacht will meet. Nor will one human stomach keep down what another stomach will handle with relish, or with mustard and pickles for that matter! It is all relative.

CAPSIZE SCREENING FORMULA (CSF): Some years ago the technical committe of the Cruising Club of America came up with a simple formula to determine if a boat had blue water capability. The CSF compares beam with displacement since excess beam contributes to capsize and heavy displacement reduces capsize vulnerability. The formula is the maximum beam divided by the cube root of the displacement in cubic feet; B/Displ .333 . The displacement in cubic feet can be found by dividing the displacement in pounds by 64, of course.

The boat is acceptable if the result of the calculation is 2.0 or less but, of course, the lower the better. For example, a 12 meter yacht of 60,000 lbs displacement and 12 foot beam will have a CSF Number of 1.23, so would be considered very safe from capsize. A contemporary light displacement yacht, such as a Beneteau 311 (7716 lbs, 10'7" beam) has a CSF number of 2.14. Based on the formula, while a fine coastal cruiser, such a yacht may not be the best choice for ocean passages.

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It appears that no-one has posted news of Ted Brewer's death. This is his obit from the Vancouver Sun - a big loss to cruising sailors everywhere. Edward Samuel Brewer (Ted) January 15, 1933 - September 30, 2021 Eight bells for Ted Brewer: On Sept. 30, 2021, the world lost one of its greatest yacht designers and draftsmen. Ted Brewer died at his home in Agassiz, BC at the age of 88. Edward "Ted" Samuel Brewer, was born in Hamilton, Ontario to Edward James Brewer and Irene Doris Brewer. He grew up roaming the Navy docks, where his father was chief petty officer at HMCS Star. By the age of 15 he was an avid boater and enjoyed sailing the Navy's 14-foot dinghies and 26-foot whaleboats. Ted would later join the army and in 1953 became a lieutenant. His company commander suggested he pursue his passion for boating and Ted took his advice, resigning his commission and going to work in Toronto as a yacht broker for George Cuthbertson, who would later found C&C Yachts. After taking a design course from the Westlawn Institute of Marine Technology, he began working with renowned designer, Alfred Edward "Bill" Luders, in Connecticut. Bill would become a close friend, mentor, and father-like figure in Ted's life. Together they worked on two America's Cup boats: The Weatherly (1962) and American Eagle (1964). In 1967, Ted struck out on his own, opening shop in Brooklin, Maine. He designed Black Velvet, a precursor to the Whitby 42, a cruiser that would go on to sell over 230 hulls and launch his career as a yacht designer. In partnership with Bob Wallstrom, he produced over 100 custom and production designs. Ted popularized fin keels at a time when most cruisers had full keels. His efforts to cut away as much keel as possible resulted in the "Brewer Bite," one of his signature design features. He also pioneered a radius bilge method for building metal hulls in the 1970s. In 1979 Ted moved to Washington state. Over the next 20 years, he produced 160 more designs including the Whitby 55 ketch, the 45' schooner Sophia Christina and the 70' schooner Tree of Life, winner of the 2000 Antigua Race Week and named the most beautiful yacht of her class by Cruising World Magazine. While living in Anacortes, Ted met his wife, Betty. Their first date was aboard a sailboat that Ted had designed (a Nimble 30). Betty was "swept off her feet" and the two married in 1988. In 1999 Ted and his wife Betty moved to Gabriola Island, B.C. where he designed a few more custom yachts, sold stock plans, lectured at the Silva Bay Shipyard School, and wrote for boating magazines. Ted was a witty and wonderful storyteller, sharing his love of design and boating with a large readership. In addition to contributing to several sailing magazines, he wrote three books "Understanding Boat Design", "Cruising Yacht Design", and "Ted Brewer Explains Sailboat Design." In June 2006 Ted and Betty moved to Agassiz, BC. Ted retired, having completed 270 designs throughout his career. Though no longer actively drafting, he continued to sell plans and correspond with fans of his designs. Ted leaves behind his best friend and wife Betty Brewer of Agassiz, B.C. Also missing him greatly are her two daughters, Rose (Joe) Mann of Omak, Washington; and Susan (Garth) Sandberg of Coupeville, Washington; her son, Paul (Katie) Record; and the six grandchildren and two great-granddaughters. He will be missed by countless friends and fans in the sailing community especially those sailing around in his "babies", as he always called his designs. There will be no public memorial, by his request. His ashes will be scattered at sea at a small family memorial at a later date. Donations in Ted's honor may be made to the Museum of the Great Lakes, in Kingston, Ontario, or to any animal charity of your choice. As Ted would say: "May you have fair winds and following seas." Published on October 11, 2021  

Great life example of somebody was so busy living did not have any time for nonsense.  

Good job, Ted.  

Fair winds Ted.... Thank you for posting the news. Jeff  

We spoke to Ted by phone a few times. A real gentleman. We have one of his designs, something about his sheer line is distinctive.  

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• Orion Boats by Waterways Inc. (Speedboats)
• Oselvarverkstaden (Traditional Nordic boats, both newbuilt and renovated originals, Os, Norway)
• Osprey Pilothouse Boats (Fiberglass sport and commercial fishing boats to 30', Bellingham, Washington)
• Outbound Yachts (Outbound 46 and 52 cruising sailboats, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
• Ovatek (Rigid self-righting liferafts, Bas-Caraquet, New Brunswick)
• Ovington Boats (29er, 49er, International 14, Mumm 30, Flying Fifteen, 18' Skiff, North Shields, Tyne & Wear)
• Oyster Bay Boats (Cedar strip rowboats and double paddle canoes, Madeira Park, British Columbia)
• Oyster Marine Ltd. (Cruising sailboats, 42-82', Ipswich, Suffolk)
• Pacific Fiberglass (Boat structural work and painting, Seattle)
• Pacific Fishermen Shipyard (A full service commercial shipyard, Seattle)
• Pacific Proa Company (Large cruising flying proas)
• Padanaram Boatworks (All types of marine carpentry and joinery, including interior cabinetry, repairs, routine maintenance to full restorations, new builds, Portsmouth, Rhode Island)
• Padebco Custom Boats (Down-East style motorboats, repairs and restoration, Round Pond, Maine)
• Pakayak (Packable, sectional, nesting performance kayaks, Higganum, Connecticut)
• Palmer Johnson (Sport motorboats and motor yachts, Monaco)
• Pamlico Marine & Trailers (Full service boatyard, New Bern, North Carolina)
• Pantawee Marine (Composite multihulls, both power and sail, up to 18 meters, Thailand)
• Paritet Boats (High speed aluminum power catamarans and hydrofoil glass-bottom boats, Moscow, Russia)
• Parker Marine Enterprises, Inc. (Motorboats 18-25', Beaufort, North Carolina)
• Park Isle Marine (Builder of Fathom and Royal Passage-Maker yachts, full service boatyard, Sooke, British Columbia)
• Patterson Boatworks (Building, repair and restoration of modern composite and traditional yachts and launches, Hawkshead, Cumbria)
• Paul Gartside Ltd. (Boatbuilder and designer, East Hampton, New York)
• Paul Mann Custom Boats (Carolina style wooden sportfishing boats, Mann's Harbor, North Carolina)
• Pavati Marine (Aluminum driftboats and motorboats, White City, Oregon)
• Pearson Unlimited (Maker of fiberglass surf dories and rowing dories, Manhattan Beach, California)
• Pedigree Cats Inc. (Custom multihulls 46-136', Raymond, Washington)
• Pemaquid Harbor Yachts (Custom pleasure and working motorboats, New Harbor, Maine)
• Pendleton Yacht Yard (Wooden and fiberglass boat repair and restoration, Islesboro, Maine)
• Pender Harbour Electric Launch Company (Builder of a 16' electric launch, Madeira Park, British Columbia)
• Perini Navi (Design and construction of sail and power superyachts in aluminium and steel, refit and maintenance, La Spezia, Italy)
• Pert Lowell Co., Inc. (Custom wooden boats, Town class sailboats, restoration, Newbury, Massachusetts)
• Peter Freebody & Co. (Classic dinghies, electric canoes, slipper launches, saloon launches & steam launches, 8-60', Hurley-on-Thames, Berkshire)
• Peter Lindqvist B�tbyggeri (Traditional boats built by eye, Finland)
• Peter Nicholls Yachtbuilders, Ltd. (Steel sailboats, motorboats, workboats, Dutch barges, Thames barges, Braunston, Northamptonshire)
• Peter Williams, Boatbuilder (Wooden boat buiding, restoration and repair, Fowey, Cornwall)
• Philbrooks Boatyard (Custom and semi-custom fiberglass yachts, repair & renovation in all materials, Sidney, British Columbia)
• Phildan Restoration (Boat restoration by Philippe d'Aniere, Southern California)
• Pinmar (Worldwide yacht painting and repainting, based in Palma de Mallorca and Barcelona)
• Pintail Duck Boats (Welded aluminum duckboats, Batesville, Mississippi)
• Piper Boatworks (Wooden and fiberglass MerryMack � catboats, boat repair and maintenance, Rye, New Hampshire)
• Placid Boatworks (Carbon/Kevlar solo and tandem recreational canoes, Lake Placid, New York)
• Platypus Marine (Full service shipyard servicing large yachts, commercial, government and fishing boats, Port Angeles, Washington)
• Pocock Racing Shells (Everett, Washington)
• PogoStructures (Custom builder of racing and cruising sailboats. motorboats, Combrit-Ste-Marine, France)
• Polar Kraft Boats (Aluminum sportfishing and utility boats, Syracuse, Indiana)
• Porta-Bote (Folding boats that fold to 4" flat, Mountain View, California)
• Porta Fiberglass, Inc. (Boat painting, Edgewater, Florida)
• Port Carling and Muskoka Antique and Classic Wooden Boats (Links to builders and restorers of wooden boats and canoes around Port Carling and Muskoka, Ontario)
• Portland Pudgy, Inc. (Builder of the Portland Pudgy lifeboat/tender, Portland, Maine)
• Portland Yacht Services, Inc. (PYS, maintenance, refits, restorations, Portland, Maine)
• Port of Toledo Shipyard (Traditional & modern boat repairs & modifications, mechanical & systems repairs & installation, 660 ton lift, do-it-yourselfers welcome, Toledo, Oregon)
• The Port Townsend Shipwrights Co-Op (Commercial and yacht repair and restoration, builders of Calkins' Bartenders)
• Precision Boat Works (Fiberglass sailboats, Palmetto, Florida)
• Primatist by Bruno Abbate (Speedboats, Olbia and Arbatax, Sardinia)
• Princecraft Boats (Aluminum fishing boats, deck boats and pontoon boats, Princeville, Qu�bec)
• ProPhish (Manufacturers of the WaterSkipper inflatable catamaran pedal boat)
• Provincial Boat and Marine (Fiberglass commercial fishing, commercial and pleasure boats, Kensington, Prince Edward Island)
• Pyranha Mouldings (Manufacturer of whitewater kayaks, Runcorn, Cheshire)
• Qingdao Lian Ya Boat Company (Manufacturer of fiberglass and inflatable boats,
• Q-West Boat Builders (Aluminum workboats, pleasure craft and catamaran passenger ferries up to 40m, Wanganui, New Zealand)
• Radoslaw Werszko - Wooden Dinghy Designer and Builder (Poland)
• Ranger Boats (Aluminum and fiberglass jon boats, fishing, hunting and pontoon boats, Flippin, Arkansas)
• Ranger Tugs (Fiberglass cruising motorboats 21-31', Kent, Washington)
• Rantilla Rowing (Builder of Odyssey rowboats, Warren, Rhode Island)
• Ray's River Dories, Inc. (Wooden driftboats, Portland, Oregon)
• Redd's Pond Boatworks (Building and restoring classic wooden boats, Marblehead, Massachusetts)
• Redfish Custom Kayak & Canoe Co. (Designer & builder of wood strip sea kayaks & canoes, Port Townsend, Washington)
• Reedsport Machine & Fabrication (Full service boat yard-machine shop, new construction and repairs, 60 ton haulout capacity, Winchester Bay, Oregon)
• Regal Boats (Fiberglass motorboats, Orlando, Florida)
• Reinke (Aluminum cruising sailboats designed by Kurt Reinke, Bremen, Germany)
• ReLine Yachts (Steel motor yachts, Holland)
• Reservoir Boat Works (Electric bass boat fabrication and modification and gas bass boat rigging, Havre de Grace, Maryland)
• Resolve Salvage & Fire, Alaska (1,000 ton drydock, repairs, maintenance, machine shop, propeller repair, Dutch Harbor)
• Response Marine (Welded aluminum boat design & construction sourcing, Newburyport, Massachusett)
• Ribcraft USA (Rigid inflatable boats, Marblehead, Massachusetts)
• Richard S. Pulsifer, Boatbuilder (Wooden Hampton motor launches, Brunswick, Maine)
• Richard Stanley Custom Boats (Custom wooden boat building and restoration, Bass Harbor, Maine)
• Rich Marine Service (Boat repair and maintenance, Cookeville, Tennessee)
• Riddle Boatworks Inc. (Wooden boatbuilding, repair and restoration to 56', Sheffield, Ohio)
• Rinker Boats (Fiberglass motorboats, Syracuse, Indiana)
• Ris�r Treb�tbyggeri (Design, building, restoration and maintenance of all types of wooden boats, Ris�r, Norway)
• RivaGuru (Alan Weinstein Associates, Riva parts, repairs, maintenance and restoration, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida)
• Riviera Boats (Fiberglass motor yachts 30-58', Coomera, Australia)
• Rivolta Yachts (Semi-custom builders of shallow-draft sail and motor yachts, Sarasota, Florida)
• Robbe & Berking Classics (Replicas of historic yachts, restoration of classic motor and sailing yachts, Flensburg, Germany)
• RO Driftboats (Fiberglass driftboats Bozeman, Montana)
• Roeboats (Custom wooden boats, Ballydehob, Cork)
• Rolt's Boatyard (Bristol Classic Boat Company, building, re-fitting and repairing classic sailing and motor boats, UK)
• Ros�ttra B�tvarv AB (Maker of Linjett performance family cruising sailboats, Norrt�lje, Sweden)
• Rosborough Boats (Fiberglass motorboats, 22-35')
• Rosco Canoes & Kayaks (Brisbane, Queensland)
• Rossbrin Boatyard (Boat storage, boat building, repairs and restorations, Schull, Cork)
• Rossiter (Fiberglass outboard runabouts, Markdale, Ontario)
• Rotocast (Hydra kayaks)
• ROTO (Manufacturer of plastic canoes, kayaks and dinghies, Slovenia)
• Roving Commissions (Shipwrights & boatbuilders specialising in wooden boat construction, repair & restoration, Millbrook, Cornwall)
• Royal Huisman Shipyard (Custom sailing and motor yachts 18-55 metres, repair and refit work, Vollenhove, the Netherlands)
• RS Electric Boats (Electric RIBs, Romsey, Hampshire)
• RS Sailing (Fiberglass sailing dinghies, Romsey, Hampshire)
• Rudders Boatyard (A family run boatyard and harbour in Burton on the Milford Haven, Pembrokeshire, Wales)
• Rumery's Boatyard (Maker of the Alerion sloop, custom yachts, restorations and repairs, Biddeford, Maine)
• Rustler Yachts (Full-keel 36' & 42' cruising sailboats, Penryn, Cornwall)
• Rutherford�s Boatshop (Construction and restoration of classic yachts, Richmond, California)
• Rybovich (Superyacht marina and service facility, West Palm Beach, Florida)
• Sabre Yachts Corp. (Luxury sailboats and motor yachts, Raymond, Maine)
• Saga Boats (Fiberglass motor yachts, Selje, Norway)
• Sage Marine (Builder of the Sage 15, Sage 17 and Sagecat fiberglass pocket cruisers, SageSport outboard sport boats, Golden, Colorado)
• Sag Harbor Yacht Yard (Full service boatyard, New York)
• Samson Enterprises Ltd. (Fiberglass fishing boats, 28-42', Arichat, Nova Scotia)
• Sandy River BoatWorks (Wooden kayaks, canoes, rowboats & small sailboats, Corbett, Oregon)
• San Juan Yachts (Composite motor yachts, Anacortes, Washington)
• Saroca (Manufactures a 16'6" sail, row, paddle boat)
• Scarano Boat Building (Wood composite sailing yachts, power and sail excursion vessels, Albany, New York)
• Schooner Creek Boat Works (High tech composite new construction, full service of large or small, sail or power boats, Portland, Oregon)
• Schweers Yard (Aluminum and steel luxury yachts to 60 metres, special ship building of all kinds up to 65 metres, repairs & refits, Bardenfleth, Weser, Germany)
• Scorpion RIBs (Lymington, Hampshire)
• Scott's Small Wooden Boat Shop (Small plywood boats, Centerbrook, Connecticut)
• Scruffie Marine (Traditional style plywood sailboats & electric launches, Eagle Heights, Queensland)
• SeaArk Boats (Aluminum sport fishing boats and jonboats, Monticello, Arkansas)
• SeaCycle (Maker of pedal powered catamarans, Adrian, Michigan)
• Sea Eagle Inflatable Boats (Port Jefferson, New York)
• Seahorse Marine (Steel and fiberglass motorsailers and trawler yachts, Zhuhai, China)
• Sea Island Boat Builders (Custom wooden boatbuilding in sail and power, Charleston, South Carolina)
• Sea Kayaking UK Ltd. (Manufacturer of composite sea kayaks designed by Nigel Dennis, Anglesey, Wales)
• Sealegs (Amphibious motorboats, motorboats and RIBs, Auckland, New Zealand)
• Sea Pro Boats (Fiberglass motorboats, Whitmire, South Carolina)
• Sea Ray Boats, Inc.
• Seashell Boats (Fiberglass sailing dinghies, wooden dinghy kits and plans, Lostwithiel, Cornwall)
• Seasport Boats (Motorboats and motor catamarans 22-32', Bellingham, Washington)
• Seaview Boatyards (Power, sail & commercial boat repair, Seattle and Bellingham, Washington)
• Seaward Kayaks (Sea kayaks)
• Seaway Boats (Traditonal style fiberglass motorboats, Oxford, Maine)
• Seawolf Marine Mfg., Inc. (Custom aluminum motorboats, Burlington, Washington)
• Sessa Marine (Motorboats 14-36', Bergamo, Italy)
• Shannon Boats (Timber launches & skiffs, traditional clinker & carvel construction, Mitchells Island, New South Wales)
• Sharp Marine Restoration & Joinery (Wooden boat repair and restoration, Vancouver, British Columbia)
• Shearwater Boats (Canoes, kayaks, small boats, Stamford, Connecticut)
• Shell Boats (Plywood sailboats)
• Shipshape, Carpinterios de Ribera (Wooden boatbuilding, restoration and repair, Cud�n, Cantabria, Spain)
• Sierra Boat Company (Antique motorboat restoration, Lake Tahoe)
• Silverback Marine (Aluminum workboats, landing craft and barges, Tacoma, Washington)
• Silver Ships, Inc. (Custom aluminum workboats, fireboats and patrol boats, Ambar RIBs, Theodore, Alabama)
• Silvers Marine Ltd. (Full service boatyard, Rosneath, Argyll, Scotland)
• Silver Streak Boats (Welded aluminum duck boats and motorboats to 31', Sooke, British Columbia)
• Silverton Yacht (Fiberglass motor yachts, Egg Harbor City, New Jersey)
• Skagit Orca Boats (Sport fishing boats 22-27')
• Skiff Craft (Wooden inboard runabouts, Plain City, Ohio)
• Smoker Craft (Aluminum sportfishing boats, Stayton, Oregon)
• Snyder's Shipyard Limited (Builds and repairs wooden and fiberglass boats up to 110', Dayspring, Nova Scotia
• Solomon Yacht Restoration (Structural fiberglass repairs, painting, refinishing, and restoration of fiberglass yachts anyhwere in North America, based in Edgewater, Maryland)
• Souris River Canoe Company (Kevlar/epoxy canoes)
• South Bay Pontoon Boats (Middlebury, Indiana)
• South Shore Boatworks (Wooden boat building, repair, interiors, cabinets, joinery, Halifax, Massachusetts)
• Spencer Yachts (Salt water sport fishing yachts, Wanchese, North Carolina)
• Spindrift Rowboats (Fiberglass rowers & sailers, Whitehalls, dories, peapods, tenders, Nanaimo, British Columbia, Canada)
• Spirit Yachts (Customised, wooden sail and power yachts, refits & Restorations, Ipswich, Suffolk)
• St�mpfli Racing Boats (Rowing shells, Zurich, Switzerland)
• Stanley & Thomas Boatbuilders (Wooden and composite boat restoration and repair, Windsor, Berkshire)
• Starcraft Marine (Aluminum and fiberglass motorboats and pontoon boats, New Paris, Indiana)
• Star Yachts (Stock wood/epoxy motorboats, custom wood/epoxy and traditional wood boats, Bristol, England)
• Sterling Yachts (Classically styled fiberglass motor yachts, Jaguari�na, Brazil)
• Steve Cayard - Birchbark Canoe Builder (Wellington, Maine)
• Steven's Boatworks (The Bluenose 24, other wood/epoxy power and sailboats, Chester, Nova Scotia)
• Stewart River Boatworks (Wood and canvas canoes, wooden kayaks and wooden row boats, boat repairs, Knife River, Minnesota)
• Stiletto Catamarans (Small cruising catamarans, Columbia, North Carolina)
• Stillwater Boats (Persuaded plywood canoes and boats)
• Still Water Design, Inc. (Ultralight motor catamarans for low wake environments, rowing teaching barges, Chelsea, Massachusetts)
• Stingray Powerboats
• Stones Boatyard ( Salcombe Yawl maintenance and storage, Salcombe, Devon)
• Storm Boats (Bassboats and flats boats, Pompano Beach, Florida)
• Storm Hawk Boats (Fiberglass motorboats, Madison, Wisconsin)
• St. Paul Shipwrights (Restorers & builders of wooden boats, St. Paul, Minnesota)
• Strategic Marine (Aluminum work and crew boats, fast patrol boats and military support vessels, Henderson, Western Australia)
• Struer Kajak A/S (Plastic and wooden kayaks, racing kayaks, Struer, Denmark)
• The Stur-Dee Boat Company (Fiberglass catboats, dory skiffs and tenders, Tiverton, Rhode Island)
• Sturgeon-Nose Creations (Bark and skin-on-frame Kutenai sturgeon-nose canoes by Wayne Louie, Creston, British Columbia)
• Suomen Puuvenepiste Oy (Lapstrake wooden rowing boats and other small craft, Kaartilankoski, Finland)
• Superboat High Performance Powerboats (High performance powerboats for SBI and APBA offshore racing, pleasure and poker runs, Lindenhurst, New York)
• Svendsen's Bay Marine (Full service repair yard, Richmond, California)
• Swallow Yachts (Traditional style fiberglass small sailboats, fiberglass and wood-composite motorboats, Cardigan, Wales)
• Swantown Boatworks (Full service boatyard, do-it-yourselfers welcome, Olympia, Washington)
• Sweden Yachts (Fiberglass cruising sailboats, Hen�n, Sweden)
• Swift Canoe & Kayak (Composite, Royalex and Royalite canoes, Dwight, Ontario)
• Sydney Wooden Boats (Timber boat building and restoration, Mona Vale, New South Wales)
• Sylvan Marine (Aluminum pontoon boats, New Paris, Indiana)
• Takel-Ing (Construction, conversion and repair of modern and traditional wooden boats ships, traditional rigging, Neuenkirchen, Germany)
• Targa (Botnia Marin fiberglass motorboats, Malax & Nykarleby, Finland)
• Tartan Yachts, Inc. (Cruising sailboats, Fairport Harbor, Ohio)
• Ta Shing Yacht Building Ltd. (Taswell cruising sailboats, also built Pandas, BaBas some Masons and others, Taiwan)
• Team Scarab (Kona � RIBs, Offshore racing boats and electric sportboats, Santa Barbara, California)
• Technicomposit (High perfpormance composite multhulls, repair and restoration of FRP yachts, Antibes, France)
• Tecnomar (Fiberglass and steel Italian motor yachts, Carrara)
• Templar Marine (Electric launches, Kelowna, British Columbia)
• TenderCraft Boat Shop, Inc. (Wooden runabouts, launches, skiffs, tenders and canoes, Toronto)
• Tern Boatworks (New construction, restoration and repair of wooden and composite yachts, Chester Basin, Nova Scotia )
• Thad Danielson Boats (Wooden boat building and repair, Cummington, Maine)
• Thomas Boat Repair (Every aspect of wooden boat repairs on commercial fishing boats, tugs, power boats, sail boats and yachts of all sizes, Seattle)
• Thomas Boats (Wooden small boats, skin on frame kayaks, Greenland paddles, Eugene, Oregon)
• Thomas Townsend Custom Marine Woodworking (Wooden boat maintenance, restoration, repair and new builds, Mystic, Connecticut)
• Tiara Yachts (motor yachts, Holland, Michigan)
• Tideman Boats (HDPE workboats, Amsterdam)
• Tideway Dinghies Limited (The Tideway range of sailing dinghies, Maldon, Essex)
• Tim Loftus Boatbuilding (Builder & restorer of bespoke wooden craft, Bristol, South West England)
• TomCat Boats (Daysailing and sport cruising catamarans, Newmarket, Ontario)
• Tony Grove (Wooden boatbuilding and repair, shipcarving, Gabriola Island, British Columbia)
• Topper International Ltd. (Small fiberglass sailboats, Ashford, Kent)
• Tracker Boats (Aluminum outboard motorboats, Springfield, Missouri)
• Tradewind Yachts (Fiberglass cruising sailboats, yacht and motor boat repairs, refits, maintenance and servicing, Walsoorden, the Netherlands)
• Traditional Boatworks (Construction, preservation and restoration of wooden boats, Eliot, Maine)
• Transom Boat Works (Custom wooden boats to 35', repair and maintenance, Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia)
• Trinity Boats (Bespoke narrow boats, North Droitwich, Worcestershire)
• Tuff Boat (Heavy duty welded aluminum boats from 16-40')
• U-Fab Pontoon Boat Kits (Pontoon boats, houseboats and floating docks, Ottawa, Ontario)
• Ultramarine Boatbuilders (Custom or semi-custom wood/epoxy yachts, Pondicherry, India)
• Ultraskiff (6' diameter round fishing boats, Gainesville, Texas)
• Under Way LLC (Sailboat service, repair, parts and storage, Eugene, Oregon)
• Van Dam Custom Boats (Runabouts, custom wood motor & sailboats up to 100', restorations, refits & hull completions, Boyne City, Michigan)
• Vector Powerboats (Composite speedboats, 28-45', Kelowna, British Columbia)
• Velocity Boatworks (Fiberglass i550 Sport Boats, Belleville, Ontario)
• Velocity Powerboats (Fiberglass sportfishing boats, Sanford, Florida)
• Ventura Harbor Boatyard (Servicing commercial & pleasure vessels to 165 tons, Ventura, California)
• Ventura Sport Boats (Malbec 18 and Ventura 2300 pocket cruiser sailboats, Oxnard, California)
• Vexcel Yachting (Wooden boat construction and repair, Verch�res, Qu�bec)
• Viking Boats of Ullapool (Clinker built larch on oak dinghies to row, tow, motor or sail, Wester Ross, Scotland)
• VIP Boats (Fiberglass motorboats)
• Vision Marine Technologies (Fiberglass electric launches and speedboats, Boisbriand, Qu�bec)
• Voyager Boatyard (GRP, steel, aluminium and wooden vessel storage, repair, maintenance and construction, Millbrook, Torpoint, Cornwall)
• Waddington's Vintage Marine, Inc. (Refinishers of antique and classic wood boats)
• Wally Yachts (Sailing yachts, power yachts and motor boats, Monaco)
• Walsteds Baadev�rft (Newbuilds, repair and restoration of wooden, composite and metal yachts, Svendborg, Denmark)
• Wanda Concept (Traditonally built wooden sprit, gaff and lug rigged cruising boats)
• War Eagle Boats (Aluminum hunting and fishing boats, Monticello, Arkansas)
• Water Management Technologies (Builders of Scavenger decontamination vessels, Miami, Florida)
• Wauquiez Boats (Fiberglass cruising sailboats, Lille, France)
• WaveWalk, Inc. (Paddled catamarans, Sharon, Massachusetts)
• W. D. Schock Corp. (Fiberglass sailboats, Perris, California)
• Weedoo Greenboat Inc (Weed control boats and equipment, Wellington, Florida)
• Welcome Slough Boatworks (Custom modern and conventional wooden small boats, Puget Island, Washington)
• Weld-Craft Boats (All welded aluminum bass boats, jon boats and specialty boats, Benton, Arkansas)
• Westcountry Cutters (Traditionally planked cruising cutters based on the designs of late 19th and early 20th century working boats, Penryn, Cornwall)
• Westlake Boats (Custom wooden small boats, Sechelt, British Columbia)
• Weta Marine (Sailing trimarans, North Shore City, New Zealand)
• Westport Yachts (motor yachts to 52 meters, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)
• Wheeler Yacht Company (Builds a 38' cold-molded motor yacht based on the Wheeler Playmate of the 1930s, Chapel Hill, North Carolina)
• Whitacre Catamarans (Semi-custom performance cruising sailing catamarans, Anacortes, Washington)
• White Bear Boat Works (Fiberglass boat repair, White Bear Lake, Minnesota)
• Whitehall Reproductions Canada Ltd. (Builder of Whitehall Spirit � fibreglass rowing and sailing boats, Victoria, British Columbia)
• White River Marine Group (Holding company for several American boat manufacturers)
• White Salmon BoatWorks (Custom built woodstrip canoes and kayaks by Ray Klebba, White Salmon, Washington)
• Whitewater Boat Corporation (Fiberglass sportfishing boats, Miami, Florida)
• Whitewater Marine (Aluminum repairs, metal fabrication, Boise, Idaho)
• Whiticar Boat Works (Custom sport fishing yachts and full service marine repair, Stuart, Florida)
• Whittley Marine Group (Fiberglass motorboats, Campbellfield, Victoria)
• Wiggers Custom Yachts (Fiberglass yachts, repairs, Bowmanville, Ontario)
• Wilbur Yachts (Custom fiberglass motor yachts from 28-70', Southwest Harbor, Maine)
• Wilde Group (Super yacht exterior and interior yacht finishing, UK, Monaco & New Zealand)
• Willard Marine, Inc. (Fiberglass and aluminum boats for the United States Navy, Coast Guard and commercial applications, Anaheim, California)
• William Cannell Boatbuilding Co. (Wooden boats and restorations, Camden, Maine)
• William E. Munson Company, Inc. (Packman and Packcat high speed aluminum landing craft, 18-48', Chinook cruisers, Edmonds & Mt. Vernon, Washington)
• Willie Boats (Aluminum driftboats and motorboats, Central Point, Oregon)
• Willow Bay Boats (Wooden and fiberglass traditional style day sailboats, Lyme Regis, Dorset)
• Will Trickett Boats, Ltd. (Specialist canal boat and Dutch barge builders, Seend, Wiltshire)
• Winke's Boat Storage & Landing (Repair, storage, Catawba Island, Port Clinton, Ohio)
• Winninghoff Boats, Inc. (Welded aluminum boats for commercial and recreational applications, Rowley, Massachusetts)
• Wolf Manufacturing Inc. (Aluminum motorboats and dinghies, Courtenay, British Columbia)
• Woodbridge Boat Yard (Traditional and modern wooden boatbuilding, maintenance, repair and restoration, Suffolk)
• The Wooden Boatbuilders' Trade Association (WBTA, UK boatbuilders)
• The Wooden Boatshop (Specializes in restoring Couta boats, but designs, builds, restores and maintains wooden boats of all types, Sorrento & Queenscliff, Victoria)
• The Wooden Canoe Builders' Guild
• Wood & Water of Wickford, Rhode Island (Builds & repairs wooden boats and ships of all sizes)
• Woodwind Yachts (Wooden boat restoration, repairs and refinishing, Nestleton, Ontario)
• Woody Marine Fabrication (Boatbuilding and fitout, custom design, building, maintenance and support of NAIAD RIBs, Tingalpa, Queensland)
• Woodbridge Boatyard (Wooden and GRP boat maintenance, repair & restoration, new builds, Suffolk)
• Woolridge Boats (Aluminum jet and prop river and deepwater boats, Seattle)
• Working Sail Historic Boatbuilders (Traditional wooden pilot cutters from the South West of England, Penryn, Cornwall)
• Workskiff Inc. (Aluminum boats for severe service, 16-25', Sedro-Woolley, Washington)
• WorldCat (Builder of WorldCat, Glacier Bay Edition and Livingston power catamarans, Tarboro, North Carolina)
• Wyliecat Performance Yachts (High performance catboats, Watsonville, California)
• Xpress Boats (Welded aluminum fishing and hunting boats, Hot Springs, Arkansas)
• X-Yachts (Cruisers, cruiser/racers and offshore one design yachts, Denmark)
• Yacht Works (Yacht restoration and rebuilding, Sister Bay, Wisconsin)
• Yashwanth Kangen - Boatbuilder & Marine Services Consultant (Wood, wood/epoxy and FRP small boats, yachts and workboats, Mangalore, India)
• Yatlift Boatyard (Boatbuilding and repair, storage, Bodrum, Turkey)
• York Custom Yachts (Custom, semi-custon and production fiberglass sailboats and moto yachts, Rockland, Maine)
• Young Brothers Boats (Fiberglass downeast lobsterboats, Lamoine, Maine)
• Zimmerman Marine (Wood and fiberglass sail and powerboats, repairs, Mathews, Virginia)
• Zim Sailing (Manufacturer and distributor of one-design sailboats, parts, accessories, and services, Bristol, Rhode Island)
• (See also Marinas & Shipbuilding & Repair )

Leigh Alexander keynote and other design sessions

• April 25, 2019

Breaking news! Leigh Alexander , writer and narrative designer of a famous project Reigns: Her Majesty , will present a talk within Game Design and Narrative track at DevGAMM in Moscow!

In the sequel to popular mobile kingdom management swipe-em-up ‘ Reigns ‘ , the team wanted to push past “Yass Queen” and “go girl!”. Writer Leigh Alexander will share her narrative design process around the tricky political tightrope of women’s power, especially when it has to be both violent and funny , and she will touch on how procedural storytelling appeals to our fantasies of controlling the uncontrollable.

Leigh Alexander also worked on Where the Water Tastes Like Wine , Monitor. She also writes fiction and journalism (The Guardian, How We Get to Next, Medium, Motherboard) on futurism, digital society and other topics where the internet meets pop culture.

But that’s only the tip of the iceberg! Expect the sessions on game design and narrative from the representatives of Social Quantum , District Zero VR , Maginary , Soviet Games , Banzai Games , MyTona .

You’ll learn about free powerful tool for game designers Machinations, adapting game content for freeroam VR experience, visual novel genre, game-book Maginary, battle pass in a casual game and even more!

Also get ready for Workshop on game prototyping from scratch from INDIKATOR and Game Design Review from Wargaming.net.

During Game Design Review, Svyatoslav Torick and other experts will analyze the games that they received from developers prior to the DevGAMM conference. In total, 3 games will be reviewed. One hour will be devoted to each game. The entrance is free for viewers.

Moreover, Alexandra “Alphyna” Golubeva , Narrative Designer, Ice-Pick Lodge will be also among our speakers. Now she’s working on Pathologic 2. Published several comic books and stories, translated “ Blood, Sweat, and Pixels ” into Russian. The talk will describe Ice-Pick Lodge’s attempt to reinvent the game journal, turning it into a mini-game-like visual mind map that preserves and emphasizes the complexity of the plot while being more engaging to players than classic journals.

This is going to be breathtaking! Join us at DevGAMM Moscow and make sure to attend game design and narrative track!

The tickets are still on sale 😉

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Account Manager

+380 99 031-17-47 [email protected]

All questions concerning the payments and agreements. Contractor coordination.

Tori Pavlenko

Strategic Partnership Manager

+7 911 791-69-11 [email protected]

Sponsorships and unique forms of cooperation.