light brigade – the New Zealand school of yacht design - July 2006 - copyright Gary Baigent - copyright lines drawings rest with the designers Cox’s Creek Publications -
[email protected] – opposite: Bruce Farr’s One Ton centreboarder Mr. Jumpa – above: Jim Young’s 840 LIGHT BRIGADE the New Zealand school of yacht design Gary Baigent Greg Elliott designed light displacement Pig Hunter at speed near Rangitoto Island Gray Hudson Classical, beautiful, heavy displacement Logan keel yachts: Rainbow, Moana, Ariki, Windward . 1904 Henry Winkelmann Jim Young’s Fiery Cross Malcolm Tennant designed 40 foot trimaran Careless Intent 1. destroying the old order 4. origins and influences 12. considered freakish 16. vicious rulecheater 18. Western prejudices 19. first New Zealand multihull 19. butter boxes 21. against the grain 26. first native? 30. fall to bits 35. iconoclasts 40. Count Martinengo 44. canoe hulls 47. kitty cat 49. southern influence 53. work of art 56, Farr’s big dinghy 61. an affront to challenge 65. Chance revolution 66. Auckland school 68. Whiting and Ross 70. midnight builders 73. Joe Louis knockout 74. open wing deck designs 79. hot property 85. a class above 88. lay over on its side 89. the last hurrah 90. after work racers 102. more than a yacht 105. light extremists 108. greatest influence 109. hothouse development 114. the best luxury 119. intense brief life 123. monster versus multihull 124. yachts that fly 132. dragonfly 134. red dinghy on steroids 136. Wednesday night racer theme 142. quod erat demonstandum 142. wing mast schooner 144 the pirate Sayer 147. Maximum Elliott 152.