Philip L. Rhodes

A prolific generalist — dinghies to Cup defenders to cargo ships — and the man in whose office Olin Stephens learned the trade. His Rhodes 33 was a working Bay one-design in the 1940s and 50s.

Trained

MIT, naval architecture and marine engineering, 1918

Firms

Independent from 1925; partner in Cox & Stevens from 1934; renamed Philip L. Rhodes, Naval Architects, 1947; successor firm McCurdy & Rhodes

Notable pupil

Olin Stephens apprenticed under Rhodes before founding S&S

Bay connection

The Rhodes 33 (design No. 441) raced as a Bay one-design; listed in a 1954 San Francisco Chronicle roundup of Bay fleets

• 1938Rhodes 33 — design No. 441; 40 built by South Coast Boat Building Co.
• 1958Weatherly — 12-Metre America's Cup defender, 1962
• —Rhodes 27 / 40 family — offshore cruiser-racers