William Shaw Boat Designer

william shaw boat designer

William shaw. 1926 - 2006 from 1964 on, william shaw was chief designer for pearson yachts, one of americas largest sailboat manufacturers for more than two decades. before joining pearson, he worked at sparkman & stephens in new york. in the mid-1950's he was co-founder of the morc handicap rule. sailboats designed by william shaw. Key to designers. shaw – william h. shaw joined pearson yachts in 1964 as chief architect, eventually running the entire pearson yachts division of grumman. during his tenure, he and his team designed over 50 different sail and power boats. bill shaw ; alberg – carl alberg's successful career as a designer can be linked back to his partnership with pearson yachts and early fiberglass yacht. Design. the wanderer model is a shoal-draft keel sailboat with a centerboard designed for cruising. it is very similar to the smaller tartan 27, also designed by william shaw when he worked at sparkman & stephens.the wanderer is similar to other pearson boats of the era; for example, the coaster, which has a full keel but is otherwise identical, and the vanguard..

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william shaw boat designer Tartan regional representative. bill grew up in barrington, rhode island, and was on the water starting at the age of three. his father, bill shaw sr., (chief naval architect and general manager of pearson yachts), taught bill to sail and nurtured his love for boats and the sea. as a youth, bill’s summers were spent cruising with his family on many of his father’s designs and racing big. Additionally, s&s, with bill as the lead designer, designed the tartan 27 in 1961 which became very successful. this was the boat which ray greene said essentially stopped sales of the new horizons 26. taken together these facts indicate that bill shaw had a major role in the birth, and early days, of our dolphin..