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1930 – 1997 · Brooklin, Maine

Joel White

Naval architect and yard owner — Brooklin, Maine

MIT-trained son of E. B. White, founder of Brooklin Boat Yard, and the designer who gave the wooden-boat revival a working modern vocabulary.

Trained
MIT naval architecture, 1953
Yard
Brooklin Boat Yard, founded 1960 in a converted herring-packing plant
Book
Wood, Water & Light (1988)
  • Nutshell Pram
  • Haven 12½ — a shoal-draft answer to the Herreshoff 12½
  • Bridges Point 24
  • 1997W-Class 76 — his last design

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