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1900 – 1987 · Middletown, Connecticut

Winthrop L. Warner

Naval architect — Middletown, Connecticut

Two hundred designs and thirty years of magazine writing, all in service of one idea: a nice sheer, a low house, and the rig kept inboard.

Trained
MIT; apprenticed at Electric Boat, Bayonne, and Portland Boat Yard, Connecticut; drafted under John G. Alden and William H. Hand
Practice
Independent at Middletown from 1929
Writing
A regular contributor to Yachting and The Rudder for more than thirty years
Archive
Winthrop L. Warner Papers, Mystic Seaport
  • Felisi — 53-ft ketch
  • Shang Wheeler — 50-ft research vessel

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