San Francisco Bay
Donald Abbott
Sponsor of the 1937 'Weekender' — San Francisco Bay
Fred C. Brewer
Naval architect — Sausalito
Harry Cookson
Saloon keeper and part-time boatwright — Belvedere
Jim DeWitt
Sailmaker, designer and painter — Richmond
David W. Dickie
Naval architect — San Francisco
Hank Easom
Boatbuilder, sailmaker and racer — Sausalito and Tiburon
Bill Lee
Yacht designer and builder — Santa Cruz
Ron Moore
Boatbuilder — Santa Cruz
Gary W. Mull
Yacht designer — San Francisco Bay Area
Ernest 'Ernie' Nunes
Designer of the Bear and the Mercury — Sausalito
George Olson
Yacht designer — Santa Cruz
J. Parsons
Amateur designer and builder — Tiburon
Josh Pryor
Designer, owner and charter captain — San Francisco
Carl Schumacher
Yacht designer — Alameda, California
Myron Spaulding
Naval architect, boatbuilder and concert violinist — Sausalito
W. Frank Stone
Designer and yard principal — San Francisco Bay
George H. Wayland
Naval architect — Seattle, then San Francisco
Tom Wylie
Yacht designer — Canyon and Watsonville, California
Southern California
Hugh Angelman
Designer and yard partner — Wilmington, California
Charlie Davies
Designer — Southern California
Merle Davis
Yacht designer — Los Angeles
George W. Kettenburg Jr.
Designer and yard principal — Point Loma, San Diego
C. William 'Bill' Lapworth
Naval architect — Southern California
William 'Bill' D. Schock
Boatbuilder — Newport Beach and Costa Mesa
Pacific Northwest
William Garden
Naval architect — Seattle, then Vancouver Island
L. E. 'Ted' Geary
Naval architect — Seattle
Ed Monk Jr.
Naval architect — Bainbridge Island
Ed Monk Sr.
Shipwright and naval architect — Seattle
Robert 'Bob' Perry
Yacht designer — Seattle
Ben Seaborn
Yacht designer — Seattle
New England & the East Coast
John G. Alden
Naval architect — Boston
Edward Burgess
Naval architect — Boston
W. Starling Burgess
Naval architect and aviation pioneer — Marblehead
Howard I. Chapelle
Naval architect and maritime historian — Smithsonian
Thomas E. Colvin
Naval architect and builder — Virginia and Florida
Samuel S. Crocker
Draftsman in the Alden office, later independent — Massachusetts
Bowdoin B. Crowninshield
Naval architect — Boston
Thomas Fleming Day
Editor of The Rudder — New York
Henry J. Gielow
Naval architect and yacht broker — New York
Henry C. Grebe
Naval architect and yard owner — Chicago
Cyrus Hamlin
Naval architect and teacher — Maine
William H. Hand Jr.
Naval architect — New Bedford and Fairhaven
John G. Hanna
Designer and design critic — Dunedin, Florida
L. Francis Herreshoff
Naval architect and writer — Marblehead
Nathanael Greene Herreshoff
'Captain Nat' — Bristol, Rhode Island
C. Raymond Hunt
Designer — Boston
A. E. 'Bill' Luders Jr.
Designer and yard principal — Stamford, Connecticut
Thomas F. McManus
Naval architect — Boston
Charles D. Mower
Naval architect and design editor — New York
K. Aage Nielsen
Naval architect — Denmark and Boston
Frank C. Paine
Naval architect and yard president — Boston
Philip L. Rhodes
Naval architect and marine engineer — New York
William J. Roué
Naval architect — Halifax, Nova Scotia
Edson B. Schock
Naval architect — New York, Vancouver, Los Angeles
Edson I. Schock
Naval architect and professor — Rhode Island
A. Cary Smith
Naval architect and marine painter — New York
Sparkman & Stephens
Naval architects and brokers — New York
Winthrop L. Warner
Naval architect — Middletown, Connecticut
J. Murray Watts
Naval architect — Philadelphia
Joel White
Naval architect and yard owner — Brooklin, Maine
Fenwick C. Williams
Naval architect — Massachusetts
Ralph E. Winslow
Naval architect — Boston
United Kingdom
A. M. Bellingham
Designer — Kent, England
David Boyd
Naval architect — Sandbank, Scotland
Robert Clark
Yacht designer — England
William Fife III
Naval architect and builder — Fairlie, Ayrshire
Uffa Fox
Designer and builder — Cowes, Isle of Wight
Jack Laurent Giles
Naval architect — Lymington, England
Maurice Griffiths
Editor and designer — East Coast of England
Linton Hope
Designer and Olympic sailor — England
Alfred Mylne
Naval architect — Glasgow
Charles E. Nicholson
Naval architect — Gosport, England
Arthur C. Robb
Naval architect — New Zealand, Scotland and London
Charles Sibbick
Designer and builder — Cowes
Albert Strange
Artist, art-school headmaster and yacht designer — Scarborough
George Lennox Watson
Naval architect — Glasgow
Scandinavia & Northern Europe
Bjarne Aas
Naval architect, builder and broker — Fredrikstad, Norway
Johan Anker
Naval architect and Olympic sailor — Norway
Colin Archer
Naval architect and builder — Larvik, Norway
Gustaf Estlander
Architect turned yacht designer — Helsinki, Berlin, Stockholm
Tore Holm
Designer, builder and Olympic sailor — Gamleby, Sweden
Erling Kristofersen
Naval architect — Norway
Knud H. Reimers
Naval architect — Stockholm
Tord Sundén
Naval architect — Sweden
Bert Woollacott
Yacht designer — New Zealand
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