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Atlas / Designers

1901 – 1969 · Lymington, Hampshire

Jack Laurent Giles

Naval architect — Lymington, England

More than 1,400 designs, and the office that invented the modern light-displacement offshore racer. Myth of Malham won the Fastnet twice and changed what a fast cruising boat looked like.

Firm
Laurent Giles & Partners
Honour
Royal Designer for Industry, 1951
Innovation
Miranda IV (1951) introduced the spade rudder
  • 1936Vertue class — about 230 built
  • 1952Wanderer III — the Hiscocks' circumnavigator
  • 1947Myth of Malham — Fastnet winner 1947 and 1949

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