An Estuary designer who rejected the pinched-stern IOR aesthetic in favour of light, easily driven, pleasant boats — the Express 27 and the Alerion Express among them — and raced his own designs to prove the point.
- Career
- Cal Poly; Jensen Marine; joined Gary Mull's office in 1973; independent from 1977
- Output
- Roughly 57 to 60 designs and close to 600 boats in a 25-year independent career
- Bay presence
- The Express 27 remains one of the Bay's strongest one-design fleets
- 1979Summertime Dream — Quarter Ton national champion; launched his solo career
- —Express 27 / 34 / 37 — performance cruiser-racers
- —Alerion Express 28 — about 200 built; his most commercially successful design
- 1999Synergy 1000 — Sailing World Sportboat of the Year
Sourcing notes & unresolved questions
- Birth year conflicts: Latitude 38 and the National Sailing Hall of Fame give 13 June 1949; Sailing World's obituary headline gives 1951.
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